The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 80
“The man who walks at your head--Or sits on your back--Or holds the nose rope--Or twists your tail,” said Billy and the troop-horse and the camel and the bullocks one after the other.
Who acts: man, nose rope · What happens: walk, sit, hold, twist, say · To what, where: head, back, nose rope, tail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, nose rope), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 sits | punct |
| 10 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 sits | cc |
| 11 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 walks | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sits | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 holds | punct |
| 16 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 holds | cc |
| 17 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 walks | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rope | det |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rope | compound |
| 20 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holds | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 twists | punct |
| 22 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 twists | cc |
| 23 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rope | acl:relcl |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tail | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 twists | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 one | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 horse | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 32 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 horse | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 troop | punct |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Billy | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 camel | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 camel | det |
| 37 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Billy | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bullocks | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bullocks | det |
| 40 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Billy | conj |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 said | ccomp |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 other | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 other | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 one | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | present | the man | your head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present | the man not said here | your back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | present | the man not said here | the nose rope | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twist in a quote | present | the nose rope not said here | your tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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