The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 1
Little Toomai attended to Kala Nag’s supper, and as evening fell, wandered through the camp, unspeakably happy, in search of a tom-tom.
Who acts: Little Toomai, evening · What happens: attend, fall, wander, search · To what, where: camp, tom tom
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, evening), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Toomai | amod |
| 2 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 attended | nsubj |
| 3 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 supper | case |
| 5 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 supper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kala | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Kala | case |
| 8 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attended | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wandered | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 fell | mark |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 attended | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 camp | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 camp | det |
| 18 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wandered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 20 | unspeakably | unspeakably | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wandered | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 search | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 search | case |
| 24 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happy | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tom | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tom | det |
| 27 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tom | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 tom | punct |
| 29 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 search | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | Little Toomai | to Kala's supper | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to supper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | evening | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | Little Toomai not said here | the camp | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through camp=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | search | a tom tom | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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