The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 27
Little Toomai pattered after him, barefooted, down the road in the moonlight, calling under his breath, “Kala Nag!
Who acts: Little Toomai · What happens: patter, call · To what, where: breath · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 pattered | nsubj |
| 3 | pattered | patter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pattered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 barefooted | punct |
| 7 | barefooted | barefooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pattered | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 road | punct |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pattered | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moonlight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moonlight | det |
| 14 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 road | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 calling | punct |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pattered | advcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 breath | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 breath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 calling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nag | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nag | punct |
| 22 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nag | compound |
| 23 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 calling | xcomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patter | past | Little Toomai | after Kala | down the road in the moonlight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | Little Toomai not said here | Toomai's breath | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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