The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 20
So he rocked on his wings, his feet gathered up under him, and waited.
Who acts: Bagheera, feet · What happens: rock, gather up, wait · To what, where: wings
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, feet), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rocked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rocked | nsubj |
| 3 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | nsubj |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rocked | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gathered | compound:prt |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gathered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waited | cc |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rocked | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | past | Bagheera | Bagheera's wings | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wing=Location | ||||
| 2 | gather up | past | Bagheera's feet | under Bagheera | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | Bagheera not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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