The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 48
Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb.
Who acts: Kala · What happens: swash, blow, begin · To what, where: water, trunk, climb
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 | 3 swashed | nsubj |
| 2 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kala | flat |
| 3 | swashed | swash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swashed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blew | punct |
| 9 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swashed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 11 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obj |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blew | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swashed | conj |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 climb | det |
| 17 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swash | past | Kala | the water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent out water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | Kala not said here | Kala's trunk | clear property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Kala not said here | another climb | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climb=Eventuality |
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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