The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 83
Machua Appa pointed at Little Toomai, and Petersen Sahib looked, and Little Toomai bowed to the earth.
Who acts: Machua, Petersen, Little Toomai · What happens: point, look, bow · To what, where: Little
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 (Machua, Petersen, Little 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 | Machua | Machua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | Appa | Appa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Machua | flat |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Little | case |
| 5 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pointed | obl |
| 6 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Little | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 9 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Petersen | flat |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pointed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bowed | cc |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Toomai | amod |
| 15 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bowed | nsubj |
| 16 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bowed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | Machua | Little | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Petersen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bow | past | Little Toomai | to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme |
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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