The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 34

Big Toomai had come up hotfoot from the camp in the plains to search for his son and his elephant, and now that he had found them he looked at them as though he were afraid of them both.

Who acts: Big Toomai, Toomai · What happens: come up, search, find, look, be · To what, where: hotfoot, camp, elephants

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 (Big Toomai, Toomai), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	hotfoot	hotfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl:unmarked
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 camp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 camp	det
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 plains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plains	det
12	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 camp	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 search	mark
14	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plains	acl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 son	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 search	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 elephant	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 elephant	nmod:poss
20	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 found	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 found	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 looked	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	obl
33	as	as	ADV	_	37 afraid	advmod
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 afraid	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looked	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	obl
40	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	39 them	appos
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past · perfect	Big Toomai	hotfoot	the camp in the plains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from camp=Initial_Location
2	search	to-infinitive	Big Toomai not said here				for camp's son and camp's elephant	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for son=Theme
3	find	past · perfect	Toomai	elephants = elephant		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	look	past	Toomai				at elephants = elephant	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	is	past	Toomai				of elephants = elephant; afraid property	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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