The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 108
“When I came up into the sun today I heard them whooping among the tree-tops.”
Who acts: Bagheera, Baloo · What happens: come up, hear, whoop · To what, where: sun, Baloo
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagheera, Baloo), 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 | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | whooping | whoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 heard | xcomp |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 tops | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tops | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tops | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 18 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whooping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up in a quote | past | Bagheera | the sun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sun=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | Bagheera | Baloo | today | tree rules | |||
| 3 | whoop speech: other in a quote | gerund | Baloo not said here | among the tree tops | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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