The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 141
Go away!” shouted the priest, waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant.
Who acts: you · What happens: go away, shout, wave · To what, where: priest, sprig
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouted | punct |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waving | punct |
| 9 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shouted | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sprig | det |
| 11 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waving | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 plant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plant | amod |
| 15 | tulsi | tulsi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plant | compound |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprig | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | you not said here | the priest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wave in a quote | gerund | you not said here | a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient |
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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