The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 14
As Kala Nag sat down, he slid off his neck in a dead faint.
Who acts: Kala · What happens: sit down, slide off · To what, where: neck, dead faint
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kala | flat |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slid | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slid | nsubj |
| 8 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 slid | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slid | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 faint | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 faint | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faint | amod |
| 15 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Kala | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | slide off | past | Kala | Kala's neck | a dead faint | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent neck=Theme in faint=Trajectory |
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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