The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 85
A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow.
Who acts: crash, Bagheera, monkeys · What happens: tell, fight, not follow · To what, where: Mowgli, way · 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 (crash, Bagheera, monkeys), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crash | det |
| 2 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 splash | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 splash | det |
| 5 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crash | conj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fought | mark |
| 9 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | aux |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 told | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tank | det |
| 16 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 follow | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monkeys | det |
| 19 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 follow | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 follow | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 follow | advmod |
| 22 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tank | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a crash and a splash | Mowgli | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fight | past · perfect | Bagheera | Mowgli's way | to the tank | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | not follow | could | the monkeys | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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