The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 182

And a wolf stole back, and a wolf stole back To carry the word to the waiting pack, And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track Once, twice and again!

Who acts: wolf, we · What happens: steal back, carry, seek, find, bay · To what, where: word, waiting pack, track

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 (wolf, we), 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	_	4 stole	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 stole	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stole	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stole	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stole	nsubj
10	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 stole	advmod
12	To	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stole	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 pack	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pack	det
18	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pack	compound
19	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sought	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 sought	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sought	nsubj
23	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sought	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bayed	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bayed	nsubj
29	bayed	bay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 found	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 track	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 track	nmod:poss
32	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bayed	obl
33	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 bayed	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 twice	punct
35	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 bayed	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 again	cc
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 twice	conj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal back	past	a wolf				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal back	past	a wolf				tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive	a wolf not said here	the word	the waiting pack		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to pack=Destination
4	seek	past	we				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	we				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	bay	past	we		Pack's track	once, twice 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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