The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 52
“Good hunting,” said Kaa grimly, and glided away to the west wall.
Who acts: Good hunting · What happens: say, glide away · To what, where: west wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. 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 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunting | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunting | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | grimly | grimly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glided | cc |
| 11 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 glided | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wall | compound |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good hunting | grimly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glide away | past | Good hunting not said here | the west wall | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wall=Destination |
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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