The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 94

The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.

Who acts: noise · What happens: waken, fire · To what, where: big man, barrels, Nag

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wakened	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wakened	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wakened	aux:pass
6	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 noise	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noise	det
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wakened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fired	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fired	aux
13	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wakened	conj
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 barrels	det
15	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fired	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 shotgun	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shotgun	det
18	shotgun	shotgun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 barrels	nmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 Nag	case
20	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fired	obl
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 hood	advmod
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 hood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hood	det
24	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fired	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waken	past · perfect · passive	the noise	the big man					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	fire	past · perfect	the noise not said here	both barrels of a shotgun		Nag		behind the hood	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme into nag=Destination

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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