The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 88

Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.

Who acts: kites, lizard, snake · What happens: sleep, wake, weave, dry, put, catch · To what, where: little baskets, two praying mantises, kites, lizard, rock, frog

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 (kites, lizard, snake), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sleep	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wake	cc
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 sleep	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weave	cc
11	weave	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	conj
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 baskets	amod
13	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 weave	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 grass	amod
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 baskets	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grasshoppers	cc
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 grasshoppers	amod
19	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grass	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grasshoppers	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 catch	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 catch	cc
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sleep	conj
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 mantises	nummod
26	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 mantises	amod
27	mantises	mantis	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 catch	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 catch	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	xcomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 string	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 string	cc
34	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 necklace	det
36	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 string	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	42 nuts	case
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 nuts	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 black	cc
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 red	conj
41	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 nuts	compound
42	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 necklace	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 watch	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 watch	cc
45	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sleep	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 lizard	det
47	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 watch	obj
48	basking	bask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 lizard	acl
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 rock	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 rock	det
51	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 basking	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 snake	punct
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 snake	cc
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 snake	det
55	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lizard	conj
56	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 snake	acl
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 frog	det
58	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 hunting	obj
59	near	near	ADP	_	61 wallows	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 wallows	det
61	wallows	wallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 frog	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sleep	present	kites = kite			then	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	present	kites = kite not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sleep	present	kites = kite not said here			again	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weave	present	kites = kite not said here	little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in kites			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product
5	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	put	participle					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	catch	infinitive	kites = kite not said here	two praying mantises			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantis=Theme
8	pray	gerund					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	make	infinitive	kites = kite not said here	kites = kite			tree rules
10	fight	infinitive	kites = kite not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	watch	infinitive	kites = kite not said here	a lizard or a snake			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme
12	bask	gerund	a lizard or a snake not said here		a rock		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	hunt	gerund	a snake not said here	a frog	the wallows		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme near wallow=Location

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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