The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 142
So he hurried on, keeping to the rough road that ran down the valley, and followed it at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles, till he came to a country that he did not know.
Who acts: Mowgli, rough road · What happens: hurry on, keep, run down, follow, come, not know · To what, where: valley, steady jog trot, country
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, rough road), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 hurried | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keeping | punct |
| 6 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hurried | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 road | amod |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 road | acl:relcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 valley | det |
| 15 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 trot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trot | det |
| 22 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trot | amod |
| 23 | jog | jog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trot | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 jog | punct |
| 25 | trot | trot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 miles | case |
| 27 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 28 twenty | advmod |
| 28 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 miles | nummod |
| 29 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 country | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 know | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 know | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 know | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 know | advmod |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 came | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry on | past | Mowgli | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | Mowgli not said here | to the rough road | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | the rough road | the valley | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valley=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | Mowgli not said here | valley | a steady jog trot | for twenty miles | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at trot=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | come | past | Mowgli | a country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | Mowgli | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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