The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 7
It was then that Mowgli made up a song that came up into his throat all by itself, and he shouted it aloud, leaping up and down on the rattling skin, and beating time with his heels till he had no more breath left, while Gray Brother and Akela howled between the verses.
Who acts: hide, song, Mowgli, Gray Brother · What happens: be, come up, shout, leap up, beat, have · To what, where: throat, hide, rattling skin, more breath, verses
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 (hide, song, Mowgli, Gray Brother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 made | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 5 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 song | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 throat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 throat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 itself | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 itself | case |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shouted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shouted | nsubj |
| 22 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shouted | obj |
| 24 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 22 shouted | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaping | punct |
| 26 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 shouted | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 leaping | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 down | cc |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 up | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 skin | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 skin | det |
| 32 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 skin | compound |
| 33 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaping | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beating | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beating | cc |
| 36 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 leaping | conj |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 beating | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 heels | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heels | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 beating | obl |
| 41 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 43 had | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 had | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 beating | advcl |
| 44 | no | no | ADV | _ | 45 more | advmod |
| 45 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 breath | amod |
| 46 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | obj |
| 47 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 breath | acl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 howled | punct |
| 49 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 54 howled | mark |
| 50 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Brother | amod |
| 51 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 howled | nsubj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Akela | cc |
| 53 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Brother | conj |
| 54 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 had | conj |
| 55 | between | between | ADP | _ | 57 verses | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 verses | det |
| 57 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 howled | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hide | then | make property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come up | past | a song | Mowgli's throat | by hide | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into throat=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | Mowgli | hide | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | leap up | gerund | Mowgli not said here | the rattling skin | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | beat | gerund | Mowgli not said here | time | with Mowgli's heels | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heel=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | past | Mowgli | more breath | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient | ||||
| 7 | leave | participle | more breath not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | howl | past | Gray Brother and Akela | the verses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between verse=Location |
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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