The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 36

Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: “This is true; we all say so.”

Who acts: Mowgli, hundreds, own speakers, speaker, speakers, This · What happens: make, gather, listen, sing, stop, shout · To what, where: objection, monkeys, praises, Bandar log, breath · Speech: someone speaks here

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, hundreds, own speakers, speaker), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 objection	det
4	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gathered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gathered	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkeys	det
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	nsubj:pass
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 hundreds	case
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hundreds	cc
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hundreds	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 terrace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 terrace	det
16	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hundreds	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 listen	mark
18	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gathered	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 speakers	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 speakers	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 speakers	amod
22	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 listen	obl
23	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 speakers	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 praises	det
25	praises	praise	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 singing	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 log	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 log	det
28	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 log	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Bandar	punct
30	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 praises	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stopped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stopped	cc
33	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 stopped	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 speaker	det
35	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stopped	nsubj
36	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	parataxis
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 want	case
38	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stopped	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 breath	case
40	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 want	nmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 shout	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 shout	aux
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 shout	advmod
44	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 stopped	conj
45	together	together	ADV	_	44 shout	advmod
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 true	punct
47	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 true	punct
48	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 true	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 true	cop
50	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 say	nsubj
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 say	advmod
54	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
55	so	so	ADV	_	54 say	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Mowgli	no objection		tree rules
2	gather	participle · passive	hundreds on the terrace and hundreds	the monkeys		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	listen	to-infinitive	hundreds on the terrace and hundreds not said here		to monkeys's own speakers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to speaker=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	monkeys's own speakers not said here	the praises of the Bandar log		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme
5	stop	participle	a speaker		for want of breath; whenever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	shout speech: express	would	speakers = speaker		all, together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	This		true property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert in a quote	present	we			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	praise			the Bandar log		nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	want			breath		nom want «state 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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