The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 129
The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us!
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: howl, scuffle away, follow, shout, notice · To what, where: Bandar log, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 4 log | det |
| 2 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 log | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bandar | punct |
| 4 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 log | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 triumph | case |
| 7 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 howled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scuffled | cc |
| 9 | scuffled | scuffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 howled | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 scuffled | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 branches | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 branches | det |
| 13 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 branches | amod |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scuffled | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 follow | advmod |
| 16 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 17 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 dared | advmod |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 branches | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shouting | punct |
| 21 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 follow | advcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 noticed | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 noticed | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 noticed | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 noticed | aux |
| 26 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 shouting | conj |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 noticed | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | participle | the Bandar log not said here | with triumph | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with triumph=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scuffle away | participle | to the upper branches; away property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | Bagheera | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | Bagheera not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | notice in a quote | present · perfect | Bagheera | us | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=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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