The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 72

Nag waved to and fro, and then Rikki-tikki heard him drinking from the biggest water-jar that was used to fill the bath.

Who acts: Nag, Rikki tikki · What happens: wave, fro, hear, drink, use, fill · To what, where: Nag, biggest water jar, bath

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 (Nag, Rikki 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	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 waved	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fro	cc
5	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waved	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 heard	advmod
9	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tikki	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rikki	punct
11	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 heard	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	20 jar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jar	det
17	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 jar	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jar	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
20	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drinking	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 used	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux:pass
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 jar	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fill	mark
25	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bath	det
27	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fill	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wave	past	Nag				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fro	infinitive	Nag not said here				tree rules
3	hear	past	Rikki tikki	Nag		then	tree rules
4	drink	gerund	Nag not said here		the biggest water jar		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from jar=Source
5	use	past · passive		the biggest water jar			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
6	fill	to-infinitive		the bath			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=Patient

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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