The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 96
His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo.
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: deliver, stroke · To what, where: first stroke, heart
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 (Kaa), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stroke | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 stroke | amod |
| 3 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delivered | aux:pass |
| 5 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 crowd | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crowd | det |
| 11 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | nmod |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 Baloo | case |
| 13 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crowd | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | Kaa's first stroke | the heart of the crowd round Baloo | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stroke | Kaa | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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