The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 146

Mowgli walked on, for he was feeling hungry, and when he came to the village gate he saw the big thorn-bush that was drawn up before the gate at twilight, pushed to one side.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: walk on, feel, come, see, draw up, push · To what, where: village gate, big thorn bush, twilight, one side

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), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feeling	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 feeling	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feeling	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feeling	aux
8	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feeling	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gate	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gate	compound
18	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bush	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bush	amod
23	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bush	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 thorn	punct
25	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 drawn	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 drawn	aux:pass
28	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bush	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 drawn	compound:prt
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 gate	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gate	det
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drawn	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 twilight	case
34	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drawn	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pushed	punct
36	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 saw	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 side	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 side	nummod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pushed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	Mowgli					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past · progressive	Mowgli				hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	come	past	Mowgli		the village gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
4	see	past	Mowgli	the big thorn bush				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus
5	draw up	past · passive		the big thorn bush	twilight	before the gate		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	push	participle	Mowgli not said here		one side			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to side=Trajectory

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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