The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 114

I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.

Who acts: I, mule, ribs · What happens: hear, back, catch, ring · To what, where: harness jingle, camel

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mule, ribs), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jingle	det
4	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jingle	compound
5	jingle	jingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 backed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mule	det
8	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 backed	nsubj
9	backed	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 caught	cc
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 backed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 camel	det
13	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 kicks	nummod
15	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 caught	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 ribs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ribs	det
18	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kicks	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 rang	nsubj
20	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ribs	acl:relcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 drum	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 drum	det
23	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rang	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	the harness jingle		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jingle=Stimulus
2	back	past	the mule			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	the mule not said here	the camel		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent camel=Beneficiary kick=Theme
4	ring	past	the ribs		like a drum	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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