The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 18
He would get his torch and wave it, and yell with the best.
Who acts: Toomai · What happens: get, wave, yell · To what, where: torch, use
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 (Toomai), 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 | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 torch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wave | cc |
| 7 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yell | cc |
| 11 | yell | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 best | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 yell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Toomai | Toomai's torch | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wave | present | Toomai not said here | use | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | yell speech: express | infinitive | Toomai not said here | with the best | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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