The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 72

“When Baloo hurt my head,” said Mowgli (he was still on his back), “I went away, and the gray apes came down from the trees and had pity on me.

Who acts: Baloo, Mowgli, gray apes · What happens: hurt, say, be, go away, come down, have · To what, where: head, back, trees, pity · 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 (Baloo, Mowgli, gray apes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hurt	advmod
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hurt	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hurt	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 back	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 back	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 back	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	17 back	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mowgli	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 back	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 apes	det
27	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 apes	compound
28	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
36	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 had	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt in a quote	past	Baloo	my head				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Mowgli		Mowgli's back	still		tree rules
4	go away in a quote	past	Mowgli				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come down in a quote	past	the gray apes		the trees		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
6	have in a quote	past	Mowgli not said here	pity			on Mowgli	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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