The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 38

Then the branches closed over his head again, and Kala Nag began to go down into the valley--not quietly this time, but as a runaway gun goes down a steep bank--in one rush.

Who acts: Kala, runaway gun · What happens: close, begin, go down · To what, where: branches, head, valley, steep bank

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 (Kala, runaway gun), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 closed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branches	det
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	nsubj:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 closed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
12	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Kala	flat
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 valley	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 valley	det
19	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 time	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 time	advmod
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	24 time	advmod
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 goes	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 goes	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 goes	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gun	det
29	runaway	runaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gun	compound
30	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	nsubj
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	35 bank	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bank	det
34	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bank	amod
35	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 rush	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 rush	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 rush	nummod
39	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle · passive		the branches	bat's head	then; again		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	begin	past	Kala					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go down	to-infinitive	Kala not said here		the valley	time	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	go down	present	a runaway gun	a steep bank			in one rush	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bank=Extent in rush=Attribute

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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