The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 66

The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns and savage eyes, rose out their byres, one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli made it very clear to the children with him that he was the master.

Who acts: blue buffaloes, Mowgli · What happens: rise out, follow, make, be · To what, where: byres, Mowgli, Flower, master

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 (blue buffaloes, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffaloes	det
2	slaty	slaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blue	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 slaty	punct
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 buffaloes	amod
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rose	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horns	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	14 horns	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horns	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horns	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	backward	backward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sweeping	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 backward	punct
13	sweeping	sweeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horns	amod
14	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buffaloes	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eyes	cc
16	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horns	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
19	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 rose	compound:prt
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 byres	nmod:poss
22	byres	byre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rose	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 byres	appos
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 one	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 followed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
29	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rose	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 followed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
33	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rose	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 clear	advmod
37	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 made	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 children	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 children	det
40	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clear	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 master	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 master	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 master	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 master	det
47	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise out	past	the blue buffaloes with buffaloes's long sweeping horns and savage eyes	buffaloes's byres		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location byre=Theme
2	follow	past	the blue buffaloes with buffaloes's long sweeping horns and savage eyes not said here	Mowgli		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	make	past	Mowgli	Flower	with bull; clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	is a	past	Mowgli	the master		tree rules

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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