The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 180
Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, and so they left him to come on later, while Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter.
Who acts: Baloo, Bagheera · What happens: make, hurry, have, sit down, leave, come on · To what, where: one effort, panting, Kaa, quick panther canter
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 (Baloo, Bagheera), 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 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 effort | nummod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hurry | mark |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 effort | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sit | compound:prt |
| 13 | panting | panting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 left | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 come | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hurried | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 hurried | mark |
| 26 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hurried | nsubj |
| 27 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | conj |
| 28 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 27 hurried | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 canter | punct |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 canter | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 canter | det |
| 32 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 canter | amod |
| 33 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 canter | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 panther | punct |
| 35 | canter | canter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hurried | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Baloo | one effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 2 | hurry | to-infinitive | Baloo not said here | one effort not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Baloo not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sit down | to-infinitive | Baloo not said here | panting | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | Baloo | Kaa | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come on | to-infinitive | Baloo not said here | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hurry | past | Bagheera | the quick panther canter | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at canter=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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