The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 60

Mowgli had been trying to make himself heard by pulling at Bagheera’s shoulder fur and kicking hard.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: try, make, hear, pull, kick · To what, where: Mowgli

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), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trying	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 make	obj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	xcomp
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 pulling	mark
10	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heard	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 fur	case
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fur	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Bagheera	case
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fur	compound
15	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulling	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kicking	cc
17	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pulling	conj
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 kicking	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect · progressive	Mowgli			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	Mowgli		tree rules
3	hear not said to happen	participle	Mowgli not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	pull	gerund	Mowgli not said here		at Bagheera's shoulder fur	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at fur=Theme
5	kick	gerund	Mowgli not said here		hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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