The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 37
But the bullocks only clicked their horns together and went on chewing.
Who acts: bullocks · What happens: click, go · To what, where: horns, chewing
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 clicked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bullocks | det |
| 3 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clicked | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 clicked | advmod |
| 5 | clicked | click | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horns | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clicked | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 clicked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clicked | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 chewing | case |
| 12 | chewing | chewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | click | past | the bullocks | bullocks's horns | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the bullocks not said here | chewing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on chewing=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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