The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 16

That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.

Who acts: bite, Rikki tikki, tikki, full meal · What happens: paralyze, go, eat up, remember, make, want · To what, where: Karait, tikki, tail, slow mongoose, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bite, Rikki tikki, tikki, full meal), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bite	det
2	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	paralyzed	paralyze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bite	acl
4	Karait	Karait	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paralyzed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
7	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tikki	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Rikki	punct
9	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bite	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 eat	compound:prt
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 custom	punct
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 custom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 custom	det
23	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 family	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 family	nmod:poss
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 custom	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 dinner	case
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 family	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remembered	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 remembered	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remembered	nsubj
32	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 custom	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 makes	mark
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 meal	det
35	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 meal	amod
36	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	nsubj
37	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 remembered	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 mongoose	det
39	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 mongoose	amod
40	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 keep	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 keep	cc
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 wanted	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wanted	nsubj
45	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 keep	advcl
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 strength	det:predet
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 strength	nmod:poss
48	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wanted	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 quickness	cc
50	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 strength	conj
51	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wanted	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wanted	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 keep	nsubj
54	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 keep	aux
55	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 makes	conj
56	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 keep	obj
57	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 keep	xcomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paralyze	participle	that bite not said here	Karait			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent karait=Patient
2	go	past · progressive	Rikki tikki				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat up	to-infinitive	Rikki tikki not said here	tikki	the tail		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	remember	past	tikki				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	present	a full meal	a slow mongoose			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mongoose=Product
6	want a condition, not said to happen	past	tikki	tikki's strength and quickness		ready property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme
7	keep	must	tikki	tikki		thin property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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