The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 124

Great is Rikki-tikki with the white teeth.”

What happens: be · To what, where: Great Rikki tikki

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: 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tikki	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tikki	cop
3	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tikki	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tikki	punct
5	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teeth	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teeth	amod
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tikki	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tikki	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tikki	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Great Rikki tikki				with the white teeth	tree rules

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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