The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 73
Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and they went off to look for Kaa the Rock Python.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: rub, fade, go off, look · To what, where: faded brown shoulder, Panther
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 (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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rubbed | advmod |
| 2 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shoulder | amod |
| 6 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoulder | amod |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Panther | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Panther | det |
| 10 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rubbed | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Kaa | case |
| 19 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Python | det |
| 21 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Python | compound |
| 22 | Python | Python | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Kaa | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | Baloo | Bagheera's faded brown shoulder | the Panther; here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme against panther=Destination | |||
| 2 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | go off | past | Baloo | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Baloo not said here | for Kaa | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kaa=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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