The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 79

“Good hunting!” cried Baloo, sitting up on his haunches.

Who acts: Good hunting · What happens: cry, sit up · To what, where: haunches

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 (Good hunting), 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	_	3 hunting	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunting	amod
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 hunting	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hunting	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cried	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sitting	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 haunches	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 haunches	nmod:poss
13	haunches	haunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sitting	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Good hunting						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit up	gerund	Good hunting not said here			hunting's haunches			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on haunch=Location

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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