The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 9
The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round, and took his own path.
Who acts: third elephant, two · What happens: watch, go away, snort, wheel round, take · To what, where: own path
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 (third elephant, two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 two | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | ccomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snorted | punct |
| 10 | snorted | snort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watched | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wheeled | punct |
| 12 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 snorted | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 wheeled | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 path | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 path | amod |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the third elephant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go away | present | the two | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | snort | participle | the third elephant not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wheel round | participle | the third elephant not said here | round property | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the third elephant not said here | Petersen's own path | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
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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