The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 18

Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers’ Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place indeed.

Who acts: Mowgli, Strangers, one · What happens: be, roam, give, ', hunt, answer · To what, where: empty city, Call, Mowgli, bad place

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 (Mowgli, Strangers, one), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sore	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sore	cop
3	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 angry	cc
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sore	conj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 hungry	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sore	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roamed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 roamed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 roamed	nsubj
13	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sore	parataxis
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 city	det
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 city	amod
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roamed	obl
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 roamed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Strangers	det
20	Strangers	Stranger	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 ’	nsubj
21	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 giving	ccomp
22	Hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ’	xcomp
23	Call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Hunting	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 time	case
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Hunting	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 time	case
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 answered	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 answered	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 answered	nsubj
32	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sore	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 answered	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 felt	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 felt	cc
36	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 felt	nsubj
37	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 answered	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 reached	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 reached	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 reached	aux
41	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 felt	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 place	det
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 bad	advmod
44	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 place	amod
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reached	obj
46	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	41 reached	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mowgli					sore property	tree rules
2	be		Mowgli not said here						tree rules
3	be		Mowgli not said here						tree rules
4	roam	past	Mowgli			the empty city			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Trajectory
5	give	gerund	Mowgli not said here						tree rules
6	'	past	the Strangers						tree rules
7	hunt	gerund	the Strangers not said here	Call			time		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
8	answer speech: assert	past	no one		Mowgli				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
9	feel	past	Mowgli						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	reach	past · perfect	Mowgli	a bad place				indeed property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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