The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 151
The priest came to the gate, and with him at least a hundred people, who stared and talked and shouted and pointed at Mowgli.
Who acts: priest, hundred people · What happens: come, stare, talk, shout, point · To what, where: gate, Mowgli
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 (priest, hundred people), 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 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 him | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 him | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 hundred | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 people | nummod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stared | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stared | nsubj |
| 18 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talked | cc |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stared | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | cc |
| 22 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pointed | cc |
| 24 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Mowgli | case |
| 26 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 pointed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the priest | the gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | hundred people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | past | hundred people not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | hundred people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | point | past | hundred people not said here | Mowgli | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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