The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 43

There was a splash and a trample, and the rush of running water, and Kala Nag strode through the bed of a river, feeling his way at each step.

Who acts: splash, Kala · What happens: be, run, stride, feel, rush · To what, where: rush, bed, way, running water

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 (splash, Kala), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 splash	det
4	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trample	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trample	det
7	trample	trample	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 splash	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rush	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rush	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rush	det
11	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rush	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strode	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strode	cc
17	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 strode	nsubj
18	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Kala	flat
19	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strode	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bed	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feeling	punct
27	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 strode	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feeling	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 step	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 step	det
32	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feeling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a splash and a trample	the rush of running water	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stride	past	Kala		the bed of a river		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bed=Trajectory
4	feel	gerund	Kala not said here	Kala's way		at each step	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme at step=Location
5	rush			running water			nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient

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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