The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 45
“Who calls?” said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.
Who acts: Shere Khan, splendid peacock · What happens: call, say, flutter up, screech · To what, where: ravine · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Shere Khan, splendid peacock), 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 calls | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Khan | compound |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fluttered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fluttered | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 peacock | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peacock | amod |
| 13 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fluttered | nsubj |
| 14 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 fluttered | compound:prt |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 ravine | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ravine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ravine | det |
| 19 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fluttered | obl |
| 20 | screeching | screech | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 fluttered | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Shere Khan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flutter up | participle | a splendid peacock | the ravine | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ravine=Location | ||||
| 4 | screech | gerund | a splendid peacock not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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