The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 22

Bagheera climbed as he had never climbed before, but the thin branches broke beneath his weight, and he slipped down, his claws full of bark.

Who acts: Bagheera, thin branches · What happens: climb, not climb, break, slip down · To what, where: weight, claws

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 (Bagheera, thin branches), 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	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 climbed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 climbed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climbed	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 climbed	advmod
7	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 climbed	ccomp
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 climbed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 broke	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 branches	det
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 branches	amod
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 weight	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 weight	nmod:poss
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slipped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 slipped	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slipped	nsubj
21	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 slipped	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 claws	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 claws	nmod:poss
25	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 slipped	obj
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 claws	amod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 bark	case
28	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Bagheera				tree rules
2	not climb	past · perfect	Bagheera			before property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past	the thin branches		Bagheera's weight		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath weight=Location
4	slip down	past	Bagheera	Bagheera's claws			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent claw=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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