The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 32

Sometimes a tuft of high grass washed along his sides as a wave washes along the sides of a ship, and sometimes a cluster of wild-pepper vines would scrape along his back, or a bamboo would creak where his shoulder touched it.

Who acts: tuft, cluster, bamboo, shoulder · What happens: wash, scrape, creak, touch · To what, where: high grass, bamboo

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tuft, cluster, bamboo, shoulder), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 washes	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tuft	det
3	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 washes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grass	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tuft	nmod
7	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grass	acl
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 sides	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sides	nmod:poss
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washed	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 wave	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wave	det
13	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washed	obl
14	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	along	along	ADP	_	17 sides	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sides	det
17	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 washes	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ship	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ship	det
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sides	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scrape	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 scrape	cc
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 scrape	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cluster	det
25	cluster	cluster	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scrape	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 vines	case
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pepper	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wild	punct
29	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 vines	compound
30	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cluster	nmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 scrape	aux
32	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 washes	parataxis
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scrape	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 creak	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 creak	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bamboo	det
39	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 creak	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 creak	aux
41	creak	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 scrape	conj
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 touched	advmod
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoulder	nmod:poss
44	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 touched	nsubj
45	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 creak	advcl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 touched	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 washes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wash	participle		high grass not said here	along tuft's sides; as a wave	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wash	present	a tuft of high grass		along the sides of a ship; sometimes property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scrape	would	a cluster of pepper vines		along tuft's back; sometimes property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	creak	would	a bamboo			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	touch	past	tuft's shoulder	bamboo		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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