The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 56
He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaving his head from right to left.
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: turn, weave, leave · To what, where: big circle, head, right
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 thrice | cc |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 twice | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 circle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 circle | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 circle | amod |
| 9 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weaving | punct |
| 11 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weaving | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 right | case |
| 15 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weaving | obl |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 right | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Kaa | a big circle | twice property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | weave | gerund | Kaa not said here | Kaa's head | right | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent head=Product from right=Material | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | Kaa not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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