The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 128

The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.

Who acts: Mowgli, next thing, Baloo, Bagheera, tooth · What happens: remember, feel, stare down, sway, wake, bound up · To what, where: next thing, hands, legs, jungle, trunk, branches

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 (Mowgli, next thing, Baloo, Bagheera), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeling	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feeling	aux
7	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feeling	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feeling	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arms	cc
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 hard	punct
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hands	punct
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hard	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 swash	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 swash	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 swash	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 swash	det
25	swash	swash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeling	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 branches	case
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 swash	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 face	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 face	nmod:poss
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swash	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 staring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 staring	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 staring	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 staring	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 staring	aux
36	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 feeling	conj
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 staring	advmod
38	through	through	ADP	_	41 boughs	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boughs	det
40	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 boughs	amod
41	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 staring	obl
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 woke	mark
43	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 woke	nsubj
44	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 staring	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 jungle	det
46	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 woke	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 cries	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cries	nmod:poss
49	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 cries	amod
50	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 jungle	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 bounded	cc
52	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 bounded	nsubj
53	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 woke	conj
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 bounded	compound:prt
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 trunk	det
56	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bounded	obj
57	with	with	SCONJ	_	60 bared	mark
58	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	59 tooth	det
59	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 bared	nsubj
60	bared	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bounded	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Mowgli	the next thing not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	feel	past · progressive	the next thing	hands	Mowgli's legs and arms			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on leg=Location
3	stare down	past · progressive	Mowgli			then	through the swaying boughs; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through bough=Theme
4	sway	gerund						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wake	past	Baloo	the jungle			with Mowgli's deep cries	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jungle=Patient with cry=Instrument
6	bound up	past	Bagheera	the trunk				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme
7	bare	past	every tooth					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	swash			branches	Mowgli's face			nom swash «event transitive»: of=patient in=place
9	cry		Mowgli					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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