The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 72
He held on savagely, and stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
Who acts: tikki · What happens: hold on, stick out, act · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 held | compound:prt |
| 4 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 2 held | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuck | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stuck | cc |
| 7 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | parataxis |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 stuck | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stuck | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 act | mark |
| 12 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stuck | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 brakes | case |
| 14 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 act | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 slope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 slope | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slope | amod |
| 18 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brakes | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 earth | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hot | punct |
| 23 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 earth | amod |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slope | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | past | tikki | savagely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick out | past | tikki's feet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | act | to-infinitive | as brakes on the dark slope of the hot moist earth | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as brake=Attribute |
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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