The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 80
Like all snakes of his breed Kaa was rather deaf, and did not hear the call at first.
What happens: be, not hear · To what, where: call
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: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 snakes | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 snakes | det |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deaf | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 breed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snakes | nmod |
| 7 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 breed | appos |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 deaf | cop |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 deaf | advmod |
| 10 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hear | advmod |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 deaf | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 call | det |
| 17 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hear | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 first | case |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 hear | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 deaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | like all snakes of Snake's breed; deaf property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not hear | past · do-support | the call | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
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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