The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 80

He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself.

Who acts: thing · What happens: make, see, jump, try, stop · To what, where: bound, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	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 bound	nmod:poss
4	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 jumping	nsubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jumping	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jumping	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jumping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jumping	aux
13	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	13 jumping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tried	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 tried	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stop	mark
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tried	xcomp
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 stop	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	thing	thing's bound		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Product
2	see	past	thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	jump	past · progressive				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past	thing		then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	thing not said here	thing		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality himself=Eventuality

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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