The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 54
At last Kala Nag stood still between two tree-trunks at the very top of the hill.
What happens: stand · To what, where: last Kala Nag
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Nag | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Nag | amod |
| 3 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nag | compound |
| 4 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 trunks | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 trunks | nummod |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trunks | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
| 11 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 top | advmod |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 top | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | last Kala Nag | still | between two tree trunks; at the top of the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at nag=Location |
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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