The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 23
Kala Nag did not answer to the order by gurgling, as he usually did.
Who acts: Kala · What happens: not answer, gurgle, do
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 (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 | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kala | flat |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 order | det |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 gurgling | mark |
| 10 | gurgling | gurgle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answer | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 did | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | Kala | to the order | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to order=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | gurgle | gerund | Kala not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Kala | usually property | vn act-114-1 «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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