The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 100
He belonged to a screw-gun battery, for I could hear the rattle of the straps and rings and chains and things on his saddle pad.
Who acts: Vixen, I, straps · What happens: belong, hear, rattle · To what, where: rattle, saddle pad
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vixen, I, straps), 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 belonged | nsubj |
| 2 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 battery | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battery | det |
| 5 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gun | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 screw | punct |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battery | compound |
| 8 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belonged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | aux |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 belonged | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rattle | det |
| 15 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 straps | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 straps | det |
| 18 | straps | strap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rattle | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rings | cc |
| 20 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 straps | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chains | cc |
| 22 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 straps | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 things | cc |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 straps | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 pad | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 pad | nmod:poss |
| 27 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pad | compound |
| 28 | pad | pad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | Vixen | to a gun battery | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | could | I | the rattle of the straps and rings and chains and things | Vixen's saddle pad | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rattle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | rattle | the straps and rings and chains and things | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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