The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 93
The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise.
Who acts: baggage camel · What happens: bob, fro, get · To what, where: head, word, edgewise
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baggage camel), 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 | 4 camel | det |
| 2 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camel | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 baggage | punct |
| 4 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bobbing | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bobbing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bobbing | aux |
| 7 | bobbing | bob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bobbing | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fro | case |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fro | cc |
| 12 | fro | fro | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 bobbing | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fro | obl |
| 16 | past | past | ADV | _ | 12 fro | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anxious | punct |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bobbing | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anxious | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 edgewise | case |
| 24 | edgewise | edgewise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 word | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bobbing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bob | past · perfect · progressive | the baggage camel | back's head | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | time | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the baggage camel not said here | a word | edgewise | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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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