The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 112

The bullocks went off into the long hissing snorts that Indian cattle give, and pushed and crowded and slued and stamped and slipped and nearly fell down in the mud, grunting savagely.

Who acts: bullocks, Indian cattle · What happens: go off, give, push, slue, stamp, slip · To what, where: long hissing snorts, mud

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullocks, Indian cattle), 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	2 bullocks	det
2	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 snorts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snorts	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snorts	amod
8	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snorts	compound
9	snorts	snort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 give	obj
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cattle	amod
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	nsubj
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snorts	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pushed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pushed	cc
16	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crowded	cc
18	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pushed	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slued	cc
20	slued	slue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stamped	cc
22	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slued	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 slipped	cc
24	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stamped	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 slipped	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 mud	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mud	det
31	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grunting	punct
33	grunting	grunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fell	advcl
34	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	33 grunting	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the bullocks		the long hissing snorts		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	Indian cattle	the long hissing snorts			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	push	participle					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	slue	past	the bullocks not said here				tree rules
5	stamp	past	the bullocks not said here				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	slip	past	the bullocks not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	fall down	past	the bullocks not said here		the mud	down, nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mud=Location
8	grunt	gerund	the bullocks not said here			savagely property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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.

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