The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 4

There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.

Who acts: Son, snort, Pack hunting, hunted Sambhur · What happens: check, hear, hunt, turn, yell, bellow · To what, where: yell, bellow, bay

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 (Son, snort, Pack hunting, hunted Sambhur), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 checked	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 checked	nsubj
3	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 heard	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checked	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yell	det
9	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 hunting	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunting	det
12	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunting	compound
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yell	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bellow	det
17	bellow	bellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Sambhur	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Sambhur	det
20	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Sambhur	amod
21	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bellow	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 snort	det
25	snort	snort	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	nsubj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 buck	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 buck	det
28	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 snort	nmod
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checked	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 bay	case
31	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 checked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	check	past	Son		there	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	Son	the yell of the Pack hunting		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer yell=Stimulus
3	hear	past	Son not said here	the bellow of a hunted Sambhur		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bellow=Stimulus
4	hunt	participle				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past	the snort as the buck		bay	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at bay=Trajectory
6	yell		the Pack hunting			nom yell «communication intransitive»: of=agent
7	bellow		a hunted Sambhur			nom bellow «communication intransitive»: of=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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