The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 118
The yoke snapped with a twang, and they lumbered off together.
Who acts: yoke, bullocks · What happens: snap, lumber off
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yoke, bullocks), 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 | 2 yoke | det |
| 2 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snapped | nsubj |
| 3 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 twang | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 twang | det |
| 6 | twang | twang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snapped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lumbered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lumbered | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lumbered | nsubj |
| 10 | lumbered | lumber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 snapped | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 lumbered | compound:prt |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 lumbered | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | past | the yoke | with a twang | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with twang=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lumber off | past | bullocks = bullock | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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