The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 74

Bagheera heard, and the cry that told him Mowgli was safe gave him new courage.

Who acts: Bagheera, cry, Mowgli · What happens: hear, tell, be, give · To what, where: cry, wall, new courage, Mowgli · 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 (Bagheera, cry, 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	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cry	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cry	det
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 safe	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	ccomp
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 courage	amod
16	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Bagheera	the cry			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the cry		wall		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	Mowgli			safe property	tree rules
4	give	past	Mowgli not said here	new courage	Mowgli		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient courage=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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