The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 83
Then Mowgli picked out a shady place, and lay down and slept while the buffaloes grazed round him.
Who acts: Mowgli, buffaloes · What happens: pick out, lay down, sleep, graze · To what, where: shady place
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, buffaloes), 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 picked | advmod |
| 2 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 picked | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slept | cc |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 grazed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 buffaloes | det |
| 16 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grazed | nsubj |
| 17 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slept | advcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grazed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | past | Mowgli | a shady place | then | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Mowgli not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | Mowgli not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | graze | past | the buffaloes | round Mowgli | vn dine-39.5 «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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