The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 103
Without waiting for breakfast, Rikki-tikki ran to the thornbush where Darzee was singing a song of triumph at the top of his voice.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, Darzee, triumph · What happens: wait, run, sing · To what, where: song, top
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rikki tikki, Darzee, triumph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 breakfast | case |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 6 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tikki | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rikki | punct |
| 8 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 thornbush | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thornbush | det |
| 12 | thornbush | thornbush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 singing | advmod |
| 14 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 singing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 singing | aux |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thornbush | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 song | det |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 singing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 triumph | case |
| 20 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 song | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 singing | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 voice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 top | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | Rikki tikki not said here | for breakfast | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Rikki tikki | to the thornbush result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thornbush=Result | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | Darzee | a song of triumph | the top of Darzee's voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing | triumph | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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