The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 37

Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts.

Who acts: Kya, big fight, old elephant catchers · What happens: shout, sway, fro, wipe, find, nod · To what, where: Keddah, sweat, eyes, Little Toomai, top

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 (Kya, big fight, old elephant catchers), 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	Kya	Kya	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shout	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 a	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 Kya	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 a	punct
5	ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 shout	discourse
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shout	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shout	aux
10	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sway	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sway	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fight	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fight	amod
15	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sway	nsubj
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 Kala	case
17	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fight	nmod
18	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Kala	flat
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 elephant	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 elephant	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 elephant	amod
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	conj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sway	aux
24	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shout	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 sway	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fro	cc
27	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shout	conj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 Keddah	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Keddah	det
30	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fro	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wipe	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wipe	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 catchers	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 catchers	amod
35	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 catchers	compound
36	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wipe	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 wipe	aux
38	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shout	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sweat	det
40	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wipe	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	44 eyes	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 eyes	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eyes	nmod:poss
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wipe	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 find	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 find	cc
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shout	conj
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 find	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 nod	mark
50	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 time	acl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 Toomai	case
52	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Toomai	amod
53	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 nod	obl
54	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 nod	advcl
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 joy	case
56	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wriggling	obl
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 top	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 top	det
59	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wriggling	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 posts	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 posts	det
62	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 top	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shout	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express in a quote	would	Kya						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sway in a quote	would	the big fight between Kala and the wild elephant						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro in a quote	infinitive	Kya not said here			the Keddah			tree rules
4	wipe in a quote	would	the old elephant catchers	the sweat		catchers's eyes			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme out eye=Trajectory
5	find in a quote	infinitive	Kya not said here				time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	nod in a quote	to-infinitive	Kya not said here		Little Toomai				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to toomai=Recipient
7	wriggle in a quote	gerund	Kya not said here			the top of the posts		with joy	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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