The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 60
Mowgli watched his time, and slipped off Rama’s neck, laying about him right and left with his stick.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: watch, slip off, lay, leave · To what, where: neck
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 (Mowgli), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slipped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slipped | cc |
| 7 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 slipped | compound:prt |
| 9 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Rama | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slipped | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laying | punct |
| 13 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 slipped | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laying | obl |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 laying | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 stick | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stick | nmod:poss |
| 21 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Mowgli | time | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slip off | past | Rama's neck | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lay | gerund | about Mowgli; right property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Mowgli not said here | with Mowgli's stick | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stick=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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