The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 95
Rikki-tikki held on with his eyes shut, for now he was quite sure he was dead.
Who acts: tikki · What happens: hold on, be · To what, where: Rikki tikki
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), 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tikki | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 shut | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shut | nsubj |
| 9 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 held | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sure | mark |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sure | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advmod |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 held | advcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tikki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | participle | Rikki tikki not said here | with shut | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tikki | now | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | tikki | dead property | tree rules |
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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