The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 85

He put out his arm and felt the bark, but Kala Nag moved forward, still tramping, and he could not tell where he was in the clearing.

Who acts: Toomai, Kala · What happens: put out, feel, move forward, tramp, not tell, be · To what, where: arm, bark, clearing · 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 (Toomai, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 felt	cc
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bark	det
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moved	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 moved	cc
12	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 moved	nsubj
13	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Kala	flat
14	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
15	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 moved	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tramping	punct
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 tramping	advmod
18	tramping	tramp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 moved	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 tell	advmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tramping	conj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 clearing	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 clearing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 clearing	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 clearing	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clearing	det
30	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	Toomai	Toomai's arm				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
2	feel	past	Toomai not said here	the bark				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme
3	move forward	past	Kala				forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	tramp	gerund	Kala not said here			still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert	could	Toomai					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Toomai		the clearing			tree rules

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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