The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 65

Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the back of Rama, the great herd bull.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: village street, back

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), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 street	compound
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dawn	det
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 back	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Rama	case
16	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bull	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bull	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bull	amod
20	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bull	compound
21	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Rama	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mowgli			the village street	dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	sit	gerund	Mowgli not said here			the back of Rama			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location

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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