The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 40

Kala Nag saw him, caught him in his trunk, and handed him up to Big Toomai, who slapped him then and there, and put him back on the post.

Who acts: Kala · What happens: see, catch, hand up, slap, put back · To what, where: Kya, trunk, Big, post

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), 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 saw	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trunk	nmod:poss
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handed	cc
13	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handed	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 handed	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Big	case
17	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 handed	obl
18	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Big	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slapped	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 slapped	nsubj
21	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 handed	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slapped	obj
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 slapped	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 there	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 then	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 handed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 post	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 post	det
33	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	Kala	Kya				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	catch	past	Kala not said here	Kya		Kya's trunk		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	hand up	past		Kya	Big			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to big=Destination
4	slap	past		Kya			then	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
5	put back	infinitive		Kya		the post		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on post=Destination

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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