The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 11
He did not wait for anything more, but dashed on; and the yells grew fainter behind him as he ran into the croplands where the villagers lived.
Who acts: Sambhur, yells, villagers · What happens: not wait, dash on, grow, run, live · To what, where: croplands
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 (Sambhur, yells, villagers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 wait | obl |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 anything | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 dashed | cc |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wait | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 dashed | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yells | det |
| 15 | yells | yell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | conj |
| 17 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fainter | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 ran | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 croplands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 croplands | det |
| 25 | croplands | cropland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 lived | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 villagers | det |
| 28 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 croplands | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Sambhur | for anything | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash on | participle | Sambhur not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the yells | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Sambhur | into the croplands result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cropland=Result | ||||
| 5 | live | past | the villagers | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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