The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 151
Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
Who acts: Father, cubs, hundred wolves · What happens: wait, run, take, cover, hide · To what, where: little, cubs, hilltop
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, cubs, hundred wolves), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 run | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waited | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 run | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 took | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Meeting | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Meeting | det |
| 19 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Meeting | compound |
| 20 | Meeting | Meeting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 night | nmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Mowgli | cc |
| 24 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Wolf | cc |
| 26 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wolf | compound |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mowgli | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Rock | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Rock | det |
| 30 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Rock | compound |
| 31 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 hilltop | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hilltop | det |
| 34 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Rock | appos |
| 35 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 hilltop | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 stones | case |
| 37 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 covered | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 boulders | cc |
| 39 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 stones | conj |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 hide | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hundred | det |
| 42 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 wolves | nummod |
| 43 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 hide | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 hide | aux |
| 45 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 boulders | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | could | Father's cubs | a little | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Father not said here | cubs = cub | then; night | to the Council Rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme mowgli=Destination | ||
| 4 | cover | participle | a hilltop not said here | with stones and boulders | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | could | hundred wolves | vn concealment-16-1 «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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