The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 107

The monkeys on the walls and the empty houses stopped their cries, and in the stillness that fell upon the city Mowgli heard Bagheera shaking his wet sides as he came up from the tank.

Who acts: monkeys, stillness, Bagheera · What happens: stop, fall, hear, shake, come up, cry · To what, where: cries, city, Bagheera, wet sides, tank

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, stillness, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 walls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walls	det
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 monkeys	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 houses	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 houses	det
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 houses	amod
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walls	conj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cries	nmod:poss
12	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heard	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stillness	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stillness	det
17	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stillness	acl:relcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 city	appos
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	conj
25	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obj
26	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 heard	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sides	nmod:poss
28	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sides	amod
29	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shaking	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	advcl
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 tank	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tank	det
36	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	the monkeys on the walls and the empty houses	monkeys's cries		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cry=Eventuality
2	fall	past	the stillness		the city	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon city=Location
3	hear	past	the stillness	Bagheera		tree rules
4	shake	gerund	Bagheera not said here	stillness's wet sides		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent side=Patient
5	come up	past	stillness		the tank	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tank=Initial_Location
6	cry		monkeys = monkey			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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