The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 70

Mowgli drove them on to the edge of the plain where the Waingunga came out of the jungle; then he dropped from Rama’s neck, trotted off to a bamboo clump, and found Gray Brother.

Who acts: Mowgli, Waingunga · What happens: drive on, come out, drop, trot off, find · To what, where: buffaloes, edge, jungle, neck, bamboo clump, Gray Brother

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, Waingunga), 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 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	2 drove	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 came	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Waingunga	det
13	Waingunga	Waingunga	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plain	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 jungle	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 jungle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jungle	det
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 dropped	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 neck	case
24	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 neck	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Rama	case
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trotted	punct
28	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dropped	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 trotted	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 clump	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 clump	det
32	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clump	compound
33	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trotted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 found	cc
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dropped	conj
37	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Brother	amod
38	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 found	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	drive on	past	Mowgli	buffaloes = buffalo	the edge of the plain		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to edge=Trajectory
2	come out	past	the Waingunga	the jungle			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient jungle=Result
3	drop	past	Mowgli		Rama's neck	then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from neck=Trajectory
4	trot off	past	Mowgli not said here		a bamboo clump		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to clump=Destination
5	find	past	Mowgli not said here	Gray Brother			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic

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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