The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 64

As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hours, and Kotick nearly bit off his mustache with impatience till he saw that they were following up a warm current of water, and then he respected them more.

Who acts: miles, Kotick · What happens: go, hold, bow, bite off, see, follow up · To what, where: bowing council, mustache, warm current, miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, Kotick), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	advcl
4	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 north	advmod
5	north	north	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 held	nsubj
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 council	det
9	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 council	amod
10	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 hours	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 held	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bit	cc
16	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bit	nsubj
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 bit	advmod
18	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	parataxis
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 bit	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mustache	nmod:poss
21	mustache	mustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 impatience	case
23	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mustache	nmod
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bit	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 following	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 following	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 following	aux
30	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saw	ccomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 following	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 current	det
33	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 current	amod
34	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 following	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 water	case
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 current	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 respected	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 respected	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 respected	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 respected	nsubj
41	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 respected	obj
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 respected	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	miles = mile			north property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past	miles = mile	a bowing council	hour		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme
3	bow	gerund					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bite off	past	Kotick	Kotick's mustache		with impatience; nearly property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mustache=Patient with impatience=Instrument
5	see	past	Kotick				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	follow up	past · progressive	miles = mile	a warm current of water			tree rules
7	respect	past	Kotick	miles = mile	then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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