The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 182

When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.

Who acts: Feet, Bagheera, Kaa, neck · What happens: come, gain, bound, swim, clear, make up · To what, where: hill stream, head, water, distance, level ground

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 (Feet, Bagheera, Kaa, neck), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 stream	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stream	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stream	compound
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gained	punct
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gained	nsubj
10	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bounded	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 bounded	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bounded	nsubj
14	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gained	conj
15	across	across	ADV	_	14 bounded	advmod
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 swam	mark
17	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 swam	nsubj
18	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bounded	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 head	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swam	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feet	cc
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 feet	nummod
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 head	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feet	nmod
28	clearing	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 neck	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clearing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 made	cc
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ground	compound
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
36	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 made	nsubj
37	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 made	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 distance	det
40	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Feet		a hill stream		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
2	gain	past	Bagheera				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bound	past	Bagheera			across property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swim	past	Kaa	Kaa's head and two feet of Kaa's neck			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory
5	clear	gerund	Kaa's neck not said here	the water			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source
6	make up	past	Kaa	the distance	level ground		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Pivot

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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