The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 100

Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.

Who acts: Mowgli, giant rolling muscles · What happens: put up, be, come · To what, where: strong brown hand, little bald spot

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, giant rolling muscles), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chin	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 chin	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	15 chin	advmod
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 chin	case
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 chin	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Bagheera	case
14	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chin	amod
15	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hid	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 hid	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 muscles	det
19	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 muscles	amod
20	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 muscles	compound
21	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hid	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hid	cop
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 hid	advmod
24	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 chin	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 hair	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hair	det
27	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hid	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 spot	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spot	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spot	amod
35	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spot	amod
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put up	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's strong brown hand			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	is	past	the giant rolling muscles			by the glossy hair; all, hide property	tree rules
3	come	past	Mowgli		a little bald spot		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon spot=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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