The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 126

Then there lifted up a huge gray head that Mowgli knew well, and the hot air was filled with the most desolate cry of all the jungle--the hunting howl of a wolf at midday.

Who acts: Mowgli, jungle, wolf · What happens: lift up, know, fill, desolate, cry, howl · To what, where: huge gray head, hot air, cry

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, jungle, wolf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lifted	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lifted	advmod
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 head	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
7	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	compound
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obl:unmarked
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knew	obj
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 head	acl:relcl
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 knew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 filled	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 filled	aux:pass
19	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lifted	conj
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 desolate	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 desolate	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 desolate	advmod
23	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 filled	advcl
24	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 desolate	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 jungle	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 jungle	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 jungle	det
28	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cry	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 howl	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 howl	det
31	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 howl	compound
32	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cry	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wolf	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 wolf	det
35	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 howl	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 midday	case
37	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wolf	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	participle		a huge gray head	there	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	Mowgli	a huge gray head			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	fill	past · passive		the hot air				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	desolate	infinitive		cry of all jungle and the hunting howl of a wolf at midday				tree rules
5	cry		all jungle					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	howl		a wolf at midday					nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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