The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 3

He sits down to a sort of revel all by himself.

Who acts: Toomai · What happens: sit down, sort · To what, where: revel

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sits	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sort	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 revel	case
8	revel	revel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 himself	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 sits	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	Toomai					to a sort of revel; by Toomai	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location
2	sort			revel					nom sort «cognition 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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