The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 6

He whistled with surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for--“We be of one blood, thou and I.” The waves of the branches closed over the boy, but Rann balanced away to the next tree in time to see the little brown face come up again.

Who acts: Rann, We · What happens: whistle, see, drag up, hear, give, be · To what, where: Mowgli, treetop, Rann, Kite call, branches, little brown face · 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 (Rann, We), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 surprise	case
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whistled	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	advcl
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dragged	nsubj:pass
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dragged	aux:pass
10	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dragged	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 treetop	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 treetop	det
14	treetop	treetop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dragged	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 call	det
20	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 call	compound
21	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	29 blood	case
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 blood	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 blood	punct
25	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 blood	nsubj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 blood	cop
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 blood	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 blood	nummod
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 call	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thou	punct
31	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 blood	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 I.	cc
33	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 thou	conj
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 thou	punct
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 waves	det
36	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thou	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 branches	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 branches	det
39	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 waves	nmod
40	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 branches	acl
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 boy	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 boy	det
43	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 closed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 balanced	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 balanced	cc
46	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 balanced	nsubj
47	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	parataxis
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 balanced	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 tree	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 tree	det
51	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tree	amod
52	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 balanced	obl
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 time	case
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tree	nmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 see	mark
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 balanced	advcl
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 face	det
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 face	amod
59	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 face	amod
60	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 see	obj
61	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 balanced	conj
62	up	up	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
63	again	again	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	Rann				with surprise	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with surprise=Theme
2	see	past	Rann					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	drag up	gerund · passive		Mowgli	a treetop			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to treetop=Destination
4	hear	past	Rann not said here	Rann				tree rules
5	give	infinitive	Rann not said here	the Kite call				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
6	is in a quote	infinitive	We				for one blood	tree rules
7	close	participle		the branches not said here			over the boy	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	balance away	past	Rann				to the next tree in time; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see	to-infinitive	Rann not said here	the little brown face				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
10	come up	present	Rann not said here			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	wave			the branches				nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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