The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 98
The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa!
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: scatter, cry · To what, where: monkeys
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkeys | det |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cries | case |
| 5 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scattered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kaa | case |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kaa | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kaa | punct |
| 9 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cries | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | participle · passive | the monkeys | with cries of Kaa | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry | Kaa | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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