The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 41

And just as he was going to roll the speaker over, a couple of black-haired men with flat red faces came from behind a sand dune, and Kotick, who had never seen a man before, coughed and lowered his head.

Who acts: Kotick, couple · What happens: go, roll over, come, not see, cough, lower · To what, where: speaker, sand dune, man, head

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, couple), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 roll	mark
8	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 speaker	det
10	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	obj
11	over	over	ADV	_	8 roll	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 couple	det
14	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 men	case
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 haired	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 black	punct
18	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 couple	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 faces	case
21	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 faces	amod
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 faces	amod
23	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 dune	case
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 dune	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dune	det
28	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dune	compound
29	dune	dune	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 coughed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 coughed	cc
32	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 coughed	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 seen	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 seen	advmod
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 Kotick	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seen	obj
40	before	before	ADV	_	37 seen	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Kotick	punct
42	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lowered	cc
44	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 coughed	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lowered	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Kotick				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roll over	to-infinitive	Kotick not said here	the speaker		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Agent
3	come	past	a couple of haired men with flat red faces		a sand dune		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dune=Initial_Location
4	not see	past · perfect	Kotick	a man		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	cough	past	Kotick				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lower	past	Kotick not said here	Kotick's head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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