The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 120

Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them.

Who acts: monkeys, Jungle People · What happens: howl, shriek, invite, climb up, fight, start · To what, where: senseless songs, Jungle People, trees, monkeys, furious battles, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, Jungle People), 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	4 howl	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 howl	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 howl	aux
4	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shriek	cc
6	shriek	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 howl	conj
7	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 songs	amod
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shriek	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 invite	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 invite	cc
11	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 howl	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 People	det
13	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 People	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Jungle	punct
15	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 invite	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 climb	mark
17	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 invite	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 climb	compound:prt
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 trees	nmod:poss
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 climb	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fight	cc
22	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 invite	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fight	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 start	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 start	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 start	aux
27	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 invite	parataxis
28	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 battles	amod
29	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 start	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 start	obl
32	among	among	ADP	_	33 themselves	case
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 start	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leave	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 leave	cc
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 howl	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 monkeys	det
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 monkeys	amod
39	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 leave	obj
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 see	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 People	det
42	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 People	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 Jungle	punct
44	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 see	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 see	aux
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 monkeys	acl:relcl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 see	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 howl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	would	monkeys = monkey			then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shriek	infinitive	monkeys = monkey not said here	senseless songs				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	invite	infinitive		the Jungle People				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
4	climb up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Jungle People not said here	monkeys's trees				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	fight	infinitive		monkeys = monkey				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
6	start	would		furious battles	nothing		among monkeys = monkey	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
7	leave	infinitive		the dead monkeys				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme
8	see	could	the Jungle People	monkeys = monkey				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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