The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 134

Two of the strongest monkeys caught Mowgli under the arms and swung off with him through the treetops, twenty feet at a bound.

What happens: catch, swing off · To what, where: Two, arms, treetops

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: 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 caught	obl
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 monkeys	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkeys	det
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 monkeys	amod
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	obl
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 arms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arms	det
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swung	cc
12	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 swung	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swung	obl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 treetops	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 treetops	det
18	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swung	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feet	punct
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feet	nummod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 treetops	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 bound	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bound	det
24	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swung	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past		Two		the arms		of the strongest monkeys	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme
2	swing off	past				the treetops and twenty feet		with Mowgli; at a bound	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through treetop=Source at bound=Trajectory

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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