The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 5

Then there were wicked, bitter howls from the young wolves: “Akela!

Who acts: wicked bitter howls · What happens: be

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 (wicked bitter howls), 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 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 howls	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wicked	punct
6	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 howls	amod
7	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 wolves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolves	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wolves	amod
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 howls	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Akela	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Akela	punct
14	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 were	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Akela	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	wicked bitter howls from the young wolves			there	then		tree rules

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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