The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 63
“Yes, and throw branches and dirt at old Baloo,” Mowgli went on.
Who acts: you, Mowgli · What happens: throw, go on · To what, where: branches, old Baloo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 throw | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 throw | cc |
| 5 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 throw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dirt | cc |
| 8 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 branches | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Baloo | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Baloo | amod |
| 11 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 throw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 14 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 throw | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in a quote | imperative | you not said here | branches and dirt | old Baloo | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Mowgli | vn function-105.2.1 «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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