The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 150
Then something began to hurt Mowgli inside him, as he had never been hurt in his life before, and he caught his breath and sobbed, and the tears ran down his face.
Who acts: something, Mowgli, tears · What happens: begin, hurt, not hurt, catch, sob, run down · To what, where: Mowgli, life, breath, face
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 (something, Mowgli, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:358): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hurt | mark |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurt | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hurt | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurt | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 caught | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 caught | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caught | nsubj |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 breath | nmod:poss |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sobbed | cc |
| 27 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caught | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ran | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ran | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tears | det |
| 31 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ran | nsubj |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 face | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 face | nmod:poss |
| 35 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ran | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | something | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive | something not said here | Mowgli | inside Mowgli | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Patient | |||
| 3 | not hurt | past · perfect · passive | Mowgli | Mowgli's life | before property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | catch | past | Mowgli | Mowgli's breath | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sob | past | Mowgli not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run down | past | the tears | Mowgli's face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location face=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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