The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 124

Kala Nag hit the new elephant in the ribs and knocked the wind out of him, as Big Toomai said, “We have swept the hills of wild elephants at the last catch.

Who acts: Kala, Big, We · What happens: hit, knock, say, sweep · To what, where: new elephant, ribs, wind, hills, last catch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, Big, We), 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	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 elephant	amod
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ribs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ribs	det
9	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hit	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knocked	cc
11	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knocked	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 him	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knocked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
19	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
20	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Big	flat
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swept	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 swept	punct
24	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 swept	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 swept	aux
26	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 said	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hills	det
28	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swept	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 elephants	case
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 elephants	amod
31	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hills	nmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 catch	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 catch	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 catch	amod
35	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swept	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Kala	the new elephant	the ribs		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in rib=Destination
2	knock	past	Kala not said here	the wind		out elephant	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wind=Theme out he=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Big				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sweep in a quote	present · perfect	We	the hills of wild elephants	the last catch		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme at catch=Trajectory

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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