The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 148

And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the rivers, they made their first march to a sort of receiving camp for the new elephants.

Who acts: way, ways, sort · What happens: talk, wrangle, splash, make, receive · To what, where: rivers, first march, way, camp

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, ways, sort), 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	_	16 made	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 way	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wrangling	cc
8	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 talking	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 splashing	cc
10	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 talking	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 rivers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rivers	det
13	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 splashing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 march	nmod:poss
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 march	amod
19	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 sort	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 receiving	mark
24	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sort	acl
25	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 receiving	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 elephants	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 elephants	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 elephants	amod
29	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 receiving	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund	this way not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wrangle	gerund	this way not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	splash	gerund	this way not said here		the rivers		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through river=Location
4	make	past	ways = way	ways's first march	this way	to a sort	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset march=Product
5	receive	gerund	a sort not said here	camp		for the new elephants	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=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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