The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 107
I have fought with a white thing that waved, and it took a stick and hit me on the neck.”
Who acts: I, white thing, it · What happens: fight, wave, take, hit · To what, where: stick, me
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 (I, white thing, it), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | aux |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 waved | nsubj |
| 9 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stick | det |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hit | cc |
| 17 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hit | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 neck | det |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hit | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present · perfect | I | with a white thing | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thing=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | a white thing | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | it | a stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hit | past | me | on the neck | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument on neck=Patient |
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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