The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 87

But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.”

Who acts: I · What happens: catch, swing, teach · To what, where: Tabaqui, palm tree, better manners

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 caught	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tail	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tail	det
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swung	cc
9	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swung	obj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 swung	advmod
12	against	against	ADP	_	16 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
14	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 palm	punct
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swung	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 teach	mark
18	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 swung	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 teach	obj
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 manners	amod
21	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 teach	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	I	Tabaqui			by the tail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabaqui=Theme
2	swing	past	I not said here	Tabaqui		a palm tree	twice property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme against tree=Location
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	better manners	Tabaqui			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient manners=Topic

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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