The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 74
But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just the same.
Who acts: quiet steady hustling · What happens: push, gurgle, go · To what, where: same
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 (quiet steady hustling), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hustling | det |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hustling | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 5 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hustling | amod |
| 6 | hustling | hustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushing | cc |
| 8 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hustling | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gurgling | cc |
| 10 | gurgling | gurgle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 pushing | conj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 same | case |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 same | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund | the quiet steady hustling not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gurgle | gerund | the quiet steady hustling not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the quiet steady hustling | the same | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on same=Location |
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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