The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 139
So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the whole tribe of Bandar-log swept along the tree-roads with Mowgli their prisoner.
What happens: bound, crash, whoop, yell, sweep · To what, where: whole tribe, Bandar log, tree roads
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bounding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crashing | cc |
| 5 | crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bounding | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whooping | cc |
| 7 | whooping | whoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bounding | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 yelling | cc |
| 9 | yelling | yell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bounding | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bounding | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tribe | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tribe | amod |
| 13 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bounding | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 log | case |
| 15 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 log | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bandar | punct |
| 17 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tribe | nmod |
| 18 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 log | acl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 roads | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 roads | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roads | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 tree | punct |
| 23 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swept | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Mowgli | case |
| 25 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 roads | nmod |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roads | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bounding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | gerund | the whole tribe of Bandar log | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tribe=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crash | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | whoop speech: other | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | yell speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sweep | participle | Bandar log not said here | the tree roads with Mowgli | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=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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