The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 109

Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.

Who acts: Mowgli, wolves · What happens: stretch out, yawn, be, not tell, hate · To what, where: arms, wolves, Mowgli · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, wolves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stretched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yawned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 yawned	cc
9	yawned	yawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stretched	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 face	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 face	det
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yawned	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Council	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Council	det
15	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 furious	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 furious	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 furious	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 furious	cop
20	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stretched	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 rage	case
22	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 furious	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sorrow	cc
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rage	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wolflike	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 wolflike	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wolflike	punct
28	wolflike	wolflike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 furious	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wolves	det
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 told	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 told	advmod
34	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 wolflike	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 hated	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hated	nsubj
38	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hated	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's arms		then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	yawn	participle	Mowgli not said here				in the face of the Council	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
3	is	past	Mowgli				with rage and sorrow; furious property	tree rules
4	be		Mowgli not said here					tree rules
5	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the wolves	Mowgli			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
6	hate	past	wolves = wolf	Mowgli				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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