The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 100

I came very near to falling on my last hunt--very near indeed--and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names.”

Who acts: I, my, noise, tree, tails · What happens: come, fall, slip, not be, wrap, wake · To what, where: last hunt, noise, tree, Bandar log, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my, noise, tree), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 near	advmod
4	near	near	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 falling	mark
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hunt	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hunt	nmod:poss
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hunt	amod
10	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falling	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 indeed	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	14 indeed	advmod
13	near	near	ADP	_	14 indeed	case
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 tight	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tight	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tight	nsubj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 slipping	mark
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 slipping	nsubj
21	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 noise	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tail	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 tail	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tail	nmod:poss
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slipping	conj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tight	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 tight	advmod
28	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
29	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 tight	acl
30	around	around	ADP	_	32 tree	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wrapped	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 waked	punct
34	waked	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 tree	acl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 log	det
36	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 log	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Bandar	punct
38	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waked	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 called	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 called	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 called	nsubj
42	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 called	obj
44	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	45 evil	advmod
45	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 names	amod
46	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 called	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	I			indeed, near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	gerund	I not said here		my last hunt		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hunt=Location
3	slip	gerund	my	the noise not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent noise=Patient
4	not is	past	the noise			tight property	tree rules
5	wrap	participle			the tree		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around tree=Destination
6	wake	participle	the tree not said here	the Bandar log			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent log=Patient
7	call	past	tails = tail	me			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme name=Result

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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