The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 115
“He swam far down the Waingunga to cut that off,” said Gray Brother.
Who acts: Mowgli, Gray Brother · What happens: swim, cut off, say · To what, where: Waingunga, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, Gray Brother), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 swam | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 Waingunga | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Waingunga | det |
| 7 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swam | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Brother | amod |
| 16 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | past | Mowgli | the Waingunga | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down waingunga=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cut off in a quote | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | that | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gray Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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