The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 27
The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery.
Who acts: gun bullocks · What happens: roll, answer · To what, where: cuds
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun bullocks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bullocks | det |
| 2 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bullocks | compound |
| 3 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cuds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cuds | cud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | parataxis |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 together | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 yoke | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 yoke | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yoke | det |
| 15 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 yoke | amod |
| 16 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gun | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gun | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 gun | amod |
| 20 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yoke | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Battery | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Battery | det |
| 23 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gun | flat |
| 24 | Gun | Gun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Battery | compound |
| 25 | Battery | Battery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gun | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the gun bullocks | bullocks's cuds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | together property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/27/