The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 63
He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: hear, rustle, hiss, give, make · To what, where: rubbish, Call
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), 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 | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hear | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hissing | cc |
| 6 | hissing | hiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rustling | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rubbish | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rubbish | det |
| 9 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hissing | obl |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 him | advmod |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rustling | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Call | det |
| 16 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | conj |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | Mowgli | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rustle | gerund | Mowgli not said here | round Mowgli | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hiss | gerund | Mowgli not said here | the rubbish | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rubbish=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Mowgli not said here | the Call | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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