The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 149

He sat down by the gate, and when a man came out he stood up, opened his mouth, and pointed down it to show that he wanted food.

Who acts: Umph, man · What happens: sit down, come out, stand up, open, point down, show · To what, where: mouth, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umph, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	advcl
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 stood	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pointed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pointed	cc
23	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	parataxis
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 pointed	compound:prt
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pointed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 show	mark
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pointed	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 wanted	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 show	ccomp
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wanted	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Umph		by the gate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location
2	come out	past	a man		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	stand up	past	Umph			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	open	past	Umph not said here	Umph's mouth		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5	point down	participle		mouth		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	show	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want	past	Umph	food		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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