The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 5

But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eating bad food, and many were missing.

Who acts: feet, some, many · What happens: answer, be, fall, limp, eat · To what, where: call, habit, traps, some, shot wounds, bad food

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, some, many), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 call	det
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 habit	case
7	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 lame	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lame	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 lame	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 some	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lame	cop
14	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 traps	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 traps	det
17	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lame	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fallen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fallen	aux
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 traps	acl:relcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	20 fallen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 limped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 limped	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 limped	nsubj:pass
25	limped	limp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 wounds	case
27	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wounds	compound
28	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 limped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mangy	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mangy	cc
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 mangy	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mangy	cop
33	mangy	mangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 limped	conj
34	from	from	SCONJ	_	35 eating	mark
35	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 mangy	advcl
36	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 food	amod
37	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eating	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 missing	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 missing	cc
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 missing	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 missing	cop
42	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	feet = foot	the call	habit		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality
2	is	past	some		the traps	lame property	tree rules
3	fall	past · perfect	feet = foot	the traps not said here			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result
4	limp	participle · passive		some	shot wounds		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	some			mangy property	tree rules
6	eat	gerund	some not said here	bad food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
7	is	past	many			missing property	tree rules

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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