The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 17
He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy’s father beat the dead Karait.
Who acts: tikki, father · What happens: go away, beat · To what, where: oil bushes, dead Karait
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 (tikki, father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bath | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bath | det |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bath | compound |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 bushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bushes | det |
| 10 | castor | castor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oil | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 castor | punct |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bushes | compound |
| 13 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beat | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 beat | mark |
| 16 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Teddy | case |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beat | nsubj |
| 19 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Karait | det |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Karait | amod |
| 22 | Karait | Karait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beat | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | tikki | the oil bushes | for a dust bath; away property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bath=Theme under bush=Location | |||
| 2 | beat | past | Teddy's father | the dead Karait | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location karait=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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