The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 83

Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again.

Who acts: Toomai, others, thumping, boom · What happens: feel, surge, change, crush, bruise, begin · To what, where: Kala, few strides, juicy green things, feet

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 (Toomai, others, thumping, boom), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 feel	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 twice	cc
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Once	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obj
8	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Kala	flat
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 surge	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 others	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 surge	nsubj
13	surge	surge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	conj
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 surge	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 strides	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 strides	amod
17	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 surge	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 change	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 change	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thumping	det
21	thumping	thumping	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 change	aux
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feel	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 sound	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sound	det
26	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sound	amod
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 things	case
29	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sound	nmod
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 bruised	aux:pass
33	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 things	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 began	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 began	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 minute	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 minute	det
38	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 began	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 two	cc
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 minute	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boom	det
42	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 began	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 feet	case
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 boom	nmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 earth	case
46	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 earth	amod
47	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 feet	nmod
48	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 change	parataxis
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 began	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	could	Toomai	Kala		once property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Theme
2	surge	present	all others	a few strides		forward property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stride=Theme
3	change	would	the thumping			to the crushing sound of juicy green things result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to sound=Result
4	crush	gerund					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	bruise	gerund · passive		juicy green things not said here			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
6	begin	past	the boom of feet on hard earth		again; minute		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	boom			feet on hard earth			nom boom «event 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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