The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 93
A hot wind knocked him senseless and red fire singed his fur.
Who acts: hot wind, senseless fire · What happens: knock, singe · To what, where: tikki, fur
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 (hot wind, senseless fire), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocked | nsubj |
| 4 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knocked | obj |
| 6 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 red | cc |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 senseless | conj |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singed | nsubj |
| 10 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knocked | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fur | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | a hot wind | tikki | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | singe | past | senseless fire | tikki's fur | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=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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