The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 86

They only grunt, and the buffaloes very seldom say anything, but get down into the muddy pools one after another, and work their way into the mud till only their noses and staring china-blue eyes show above the surface, and then they lie like logs.

Who acts: cattle, buffaloes, blue eyes · What happens: grunt, say, get down, work, till, stare · To what, where: anything, muddy pools, way, noses, mud, surface · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cattle, buffaloes, blue eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grunt	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grunt	advmod
3	grunt	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buffaloes	det
7	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 seldom	advmod
9	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grunt	conj
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 pools	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pools	det
18	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pools	amod
19	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pools	nmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 work	cc
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	ccomp
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 work	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 mud	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mud	det
30	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 till	obl
31	till	till	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 work	parataxis
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 noses	advmod
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 noses	nmod:poss
34	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 till	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 staring	cc
36	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 till	conj
37	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 blue	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 china	punct
39	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 eyes	amod
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 show	nsubj
41	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 staring	ccomp
42	above	above	ADP	_	44 surface	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 surface	det
44	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 show	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lie	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lie	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 lie	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lie	nsubj
49	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grunt	conj
50	like	like	ADP	_	51 logs	case
51	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 lie	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grunt	present	cattle					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	the buffaloes	anything			seldom property	tree rules
3	get down	infinitive	the buffaloes not said here		the muddy pools one after another		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	work	infinitive		cattle's way				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
5	till	present		cattle's noses	the mud			tree rules
6	stare	gerund						tree rules
7	show	present	blue eyes		the surface			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	lie	present	cattle			then	like logs	vn assuming_position-50 «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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