The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 137

His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.

Who acts: escort, Mowgli, thinnest topmost branches, cough · What happens: rush up, feel, crackle, bend, fling, bring up · To what, where: Mowgli, cough, air

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 (escort, Mowgli, thinnest topmost branches, cough), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 escort	nmod:poss
2	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rush	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rush	aux
4	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rush	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 rush	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rush	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 felt	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rush	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 branches	det
13	thinnest	thin	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 branches	amod
14	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 branches	amod
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crackle	nsubj
16	crackle	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bend	cc
18	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 crackle	conj
19	under	under	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bend	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fling	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fling	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 cough	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 cough	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cough	det
26	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fling	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 whoop	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 whoop	det
29	whoop	whoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cough	conj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fling	aux
31	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rush	conj
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 fling	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fling	obl
36	outward	outward	ADV	_	31 fling	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 downward	cc
38	downward	downward	ADV	_	36 outward	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bring	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bring	cc
41	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 rush	parataxis
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 bring	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hanging	punct
44	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 bring	conj
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 hands	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hands	nmod:poss
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hanging	obl
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 feet	cc
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 feet	nmod:poss
50	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 hands	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 limbs	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 limbs	det
53	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 limbs	amod
54	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hanging	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 tree	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tree	det
57	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 tree	amod
58	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 limbs	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush up	would	Mowgli's escort	Mowgli			tree rules
2	feel	past	Mowgli				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	crackle	present	the thinnest topmost branches				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bend	present	the thinnest topmost branches not said here			under teeth = tooth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under they=Location
5	fling	would	a cough and a whoop	cough	the air	outward property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into air=Destination
6	bring up	infinitive					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
7	hang	gerund				by teeth's hands or teeth's feet; to the lower limbs of the next tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location

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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