The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 52

Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.

Who acts: Father, valley, jungle, tiger · What happens: listen, run down, hear, catch, not care, know · To what, where: dry angry snarly singsong whine, tiger, whine

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, valley, jungle, tiger), 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 listened	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 valley	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 valley	cc
6	below	below	ADV	_	9 valley	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 valley	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 valley	acl:relcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 river	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 whine	det
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whine	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dry	punct
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whine	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 angry	punct
24	snarly	snarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whine	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 snarly	punct
26	singsong	singsong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whine	amod
27	whine	whine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tiger	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tiger	det
30	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whine	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 caught	nsubj:pass
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 caught	aux
33	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 tiger	acl:relcl
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 caught	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 care	cc
36	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 care	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 care	advmod
38	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 caught	conj
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 knows	mark
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 jungle	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 jungle	det
42	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knows	nsubj
43	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 care	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knows	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Father		in the valley	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in valley=Theme
2	run down	past	the valley		to a little river result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
3	hear	past	Father	the dry angry snarly singsong whine of a tiger		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whine=Stimulus
4	catch	present · perfect · passive		a tiger		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme
5	not care	present · do-support				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	know a condition, not said to happen	present	all jungle	whine		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	whine		a tiger			nom whine «communication intransitive»: of=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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