The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 39
The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow points rustled.
Who acts: huge limbs, wrinkled skin · What happens: move, wrinkle, rustle · To what, where: stride
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 (huge limbs, wrinkled skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 limbs | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 limbs | amod |
| 3 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 steadily | advmod |
| 6 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 4 moved | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 pistons | case |
| 8 | pistons | piston | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feet | punct |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feet | nummod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pistons | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stride | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 stride | det |
| 14 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rustled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rustled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 18 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 skin | amod |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rustled | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 points | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 points | det |
| 22 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 points | compound |
| 23 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 skin | nmod |
| 24 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the huge limbs | each stride | as pistons and eight feet; steadily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stride=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | rustle | past | the wrinkled skin of the elbow points | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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