The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 63

Patalamon rattled a pair of seal’s shoulder bones in front of a herd of holluschickie and they stopped dead, puffing and blowing.

Who acts: Patalamon, bones · What happens: rattle, stop, puff, blow · To what, where: pair, front

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 (Patalamon, bones), 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	Patalamon	Patalamon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rattled	nsubj
2	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rattled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 bones	case
6	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 seal	case
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rattled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 herd	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 herd	det
14	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 holluschickie	case
16	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 herd	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stopped	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stopped	nsubj
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rattled	conj
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stopped	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 puffing	punct
22	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 stopped	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blowing	cc
24	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 puffing	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	Patalamon	a pair of seal's shoulder bones	front of a herd of holluschickie		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	stop	past	bones = bone			dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	puff	gerund	bones = bone not said here				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	blow	gerund	bones = bone not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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