The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 127
Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.
Who acts: People, leader, Mowgli · What happens: follow, be, sleep, resolve, have, do · To what, where: Baloo, jungle, more
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 (People, leader, Mowgli), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Bagheera | cc |
| 6 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Baloo | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Mowgli | cc |
| 8 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Baloo | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 jungle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jungle | det |
| 11 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 quietly | advmod |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 nap | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nap | det |
| 20 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nap | compound |
| 21 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 slept | cc |
| 24 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 slept | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ashamed | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ashamed | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ashamed | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 ashamed | advmod |
| 30 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Mowgli | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 himself | case |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 ashamed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mowgli | punct |
| 34 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 35 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 Panther | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Panther | det |
| 37 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slept | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Bear | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Bear | det |
| 40 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Panther | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 resolving | punct |
| 42 | resolving | resolve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 slept | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 have | mark |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 resolving | xcomp |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 more | det |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 have | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 do | mark |
| 48 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 more | advcl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 People | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 People | det |
| 51 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 People | compound |
| 52 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 48 do | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | People | Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli | the jungle | quietly, therefore property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baloo=Theme through jungle=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is | past | leader | till time | for the midday nap | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Mowgli | of Mowgli; ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Mowgli | between the Panther and the Bear | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | resolve | gerund | Mowgli not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | no more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | with the Monkey People | vn act-114-1 «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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