The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 87

The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (never any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost before they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.

Who acts: sun, rocks, herd children, children, cow, kite · What happens: make, dance, hear, not whistle, know, die · To what, where: heat, one kite, sight, sun, score

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 (sun, rocks, herd children, children), 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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rocks	det
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dance	nsubj
6	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hear	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
13	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 children	compound
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 kite	nummod
17	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 whistling	punct
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 whistling	advmod
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 whistling	advmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
23	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 makes	conj
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 sight	advmod
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 sight	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sight	case
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whistling	obl
28	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	23 whistling	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 know	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
32	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 died	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 died	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 died	nsubj
36	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 know	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 died	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 died	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cow	det
40	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 died	nsubj
41	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 died	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sweep	punct
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 kite	det
44	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sweep	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 sweep	aux
46	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 died	advcl
47	down	down	ADP	_	46 sweep	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 see	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 see	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 miles	det
51	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 miles	amod
52	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 miles	compound
53	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 see	nsubj
54	away	away	ADV	_	53 miles	advmod
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 see	aux
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	obj
58	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 see	xcomp
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 follow	cc
60	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 drop	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 next	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 next	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 next	det
64	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 next	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 next	cc
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 next	det
68	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 dead	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 dead	cc
71	almost	almost	ADV	_	75 dead	advmod
72	before	before	SCONJ	_	75 dead	mark
73	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 dead	nsubj
74	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 dead	cop
75	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 score	csubj
76	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	75 dead	advmod
77	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 score	aux
78	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	80 score	cop
79	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	80 score	det
80	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	parataxis
81	of	of	ADP	_	83 kites	case
82	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 kites	amod
83	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 come	nsubj
84	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	80 score	acl:relcl
85	out	out	ADP	_	87 nowhere	case
86	of	of	ADP	_	87 nowhere	case
87	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	84 come	obl
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	the sun				tree rules
2	dance	present	the rocks		the heat		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location
3	hear	present	the herd children	one kite			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kite=Stimulus
4	not whistle	gerund	the sun not said here		sight	overhead property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sight=Location
5	know	present	children = child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	die a condition, not said to happen	past	children = child				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	die	past	a cow				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	sweep down	would	that kite				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see	would	the next kite miles	sun			tree rules
10	drop	infinitive	sun not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
11	follow	infinitive	sun not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	is	past	miles = mile		there	almost, dead property	tree rules
13	is a	would		a score			tree rules
14	come out	present	hungry kites	a score not said here			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient nowhere=Result

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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