The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 145

All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked.

Who acts: cattle, little boys, yellow pariah dogs · What happens: graze, see, shout, run away, hang about, bark · To what, where: plain, Mowgli, Indian village, herds

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 (cattle, little boys, yellow pariah dogs), 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	All	all	ADV	_	10 grazing	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 plain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plain	det
4	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grazing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plain	punct
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grazing	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 buffaloes	cc
8	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cattle	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grazing	aux
10	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saw	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boys	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boys	amod
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 charge	case
18	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boys	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 herds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 herds	det
21	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 charge	nmod
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 shouted	nsubj
25	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 shouted	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 ran	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dogs	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dogs	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dogs	det
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dogs	amod
33	pariah	pariah	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dogs	compound
34	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 hang	nsubj
36	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dogs	acl:relcl
37	about	about	ADV	_	40 village	advmod
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 village	det
39	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 village	amod
40	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hang	obl
41	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 village	acl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	graze	past · progressive	cattle and buffaloes		the plain	all property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the little boys in charge of the herds	Mowgli			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus
3	shout speech: express	past	cattle				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run away	past	cattle not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hang about	present	the yellow pariah dogs	every Indian village			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bark	participle		every Indian village not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	charge			the herds			nom charge «act 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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