The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 78
Presently a hand fell on his shoulder, and looking up he saw Buldeo with the Tower musket.
Who acts: hand · What happens: fall, look up, see · To what, where: shoulder, Buldeo
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 (hand), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 14 | Buldeo | Buldeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 musket | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 musket | det |
| 17 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 musket | compound |
| 18 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a hand | hand's shoulder | presently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location | |||
| 2 | look up | gerund | hand not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | hand | Buldeo | with the Tower musket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buldeo=Stimulus |
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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