The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 147
And almost stepping on the chain was another battery mule, calling wildly for “Billy.”
What happens: step, be, call · To what, where: battery mule, chain · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stepping | cc |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 stepping | advmod |
| 3 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 chain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chain | det |
| 6 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mule | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 mule | det |
| 9 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | compound |
| 10 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepping | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calling | punct |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stepping | conj |
| 13 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 12 calling | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Billy | case |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Billy | punct |
| 16 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepping | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | almost property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | another battery mule | the chain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | for Billy; wildly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for billy=Recipient |
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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