The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 39
And then came Akela’s deep bay, crying: “Look well--look well, O Wolves!”
Who acts: deep bay · What happens: come, cry, look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (deep bay), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bay | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Akela | case |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bay | amod |
| 7 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 9 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 12 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 crying | ccomp |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 Look | advmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Look | conj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 look | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wolves | punct |
| 18 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wolves | compound |
| 19 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | parataxis |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wolves | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wolves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Akela's deep bay | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Akela's deep bay not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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