The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 150

The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead.

Who acts: man, village, priest · What happens: stare, run back, shout, be, dress · To what, where: one street, big fat man, white

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 (man, village, priest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	nsubj
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stared	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
8	up	up	ADP	_	11 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 street	det
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 street	nummod
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 street	nmod
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 village	acl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 priest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 priest	det
18	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shouting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 big	punct
25	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 priest	appos
27	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 white	case
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dressed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 mark	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	36 mark	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mark	det
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mark	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 yellow	cc
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 red	conj
36	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 forehead	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 forehead	nmod:poss
39	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mark	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the man				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	run back	past	the man not said here		the one street of the village	with a red mark on Umph's forehead	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up street=Trajectory
3	shout speech: express	gerund	the village not said here			for the priest	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for priest=Recipient
4	is a	past	the priest	a big fat man			tree rules
5	dress	participle		a big fat man not said here	white		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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