The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 154
Rikki-tikki heard them going up the path from the stables, and he raced for the end of the melon patch near the wall.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, accounts, tikki · What happens: hear, go up, race · To what, where: accounts, path, stables
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, accounts, tikki), 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 stables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stables | det |
| 12 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 raced | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raced | nsubj |
| 16 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 patch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 patch | det |
| 22 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 patch | compound |
| 23 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 patch | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Rikki tikki | accounts = account | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | accounts = account not said here | the path | the stables | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient path=Extent from stable=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | race | past | tikki | for the end of the melon patch near the wall | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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