The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 90

Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twinkling village lights.

Who acts: evening, children, buffaloes, gunshots · What happens: come, call, lumber up, go off, plain back, twinkle · To what, where: sticky mud, one · 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 (evening, children, buffaloes, gunshots), 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 comes	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 call	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lumber	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lumber	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 buffaloes	det
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lumber	nsubj
12	lumber	lumber	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comes	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lumber	compound:prt
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 mud	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 mud	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mud	det
17	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mud	amod
18	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lumber	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 noises	case
20	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mud	nmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 gunshots	case
22	gunshots	gunshot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 noises	nmod
23	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 gunshots	acl
24	off	off	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 going	obl
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plain	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 plain	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 plain	nsubj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 string	det
33	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plain	nsubj
34	across	across	ADP	_	36 gray	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gray	det
36	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 string	nmod
37	plain	plain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 plain	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 lights	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lights	det
41	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 lights	amod
42	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lights	compound
43	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 plain	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	evening			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	present	the children					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lumber up	infinitive	the buffaloes		the sticky mud with noises like gunshots			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mud=Trajectory
4	go off	gerund	gunshots not said here	one after the other				tree rules
5	plain back	present	buffaloes = buffalo				to the twinkling village lights	tree rules
6	twinkle	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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