The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 28
He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room.
Who acts: Chuchundra · What happens: whimper, cheep, try, make up, run, mind · To what, where: mind, middle
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 (Chuchundra), 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 whimpers | nsubj |
| 2 | whimpers | whimper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cheeps | cc |
| 4 | cheeps | cheep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 whimpers | conj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cheeps | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trying | punct |
| 9 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cheeps | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 trying | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 make | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whimpers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whimper | present | Chuchundra | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cheep | present | Chuchundra not said here | night | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | Chuchundra not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chuchundra not said here | Chuchundra's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | Chuchundra not said here | into the middle of the room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result | ||||
| 6 | mind | Chuchundra | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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