The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 91

Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother’s back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.

Who acts: Day, Mowgli, Brother, Shere, grass · What happens: lead, see, know, not come back, lie, listen · To what, where: buffaloes, grass, jungle

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 (Day, Mowgli, Brother, Shere), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lead	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lead	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lead	aux
6	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buffaloes	det
8	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lead	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	6 lead	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wallows	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wallows	nmod:poss
12	wallows	wallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 out	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl:unmarked
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 day	case
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lead	parataxis
21	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Brother	amod
22	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 ’s	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mile	det
26	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obl:unmarked
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 half	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 half	det
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 mile	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	23 ’s	advmod
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 plain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plain	det
33	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 away	obl
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 knew	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 come	mark
39	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 come	nsubj
40	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Shere	flat
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 come	advmod
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 knew	ccomp
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 come	advmod
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 lie	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 lie	cc
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lie	obl:unmarked
49	after	after	ADP	_	50 day	case
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 day	nmod
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 lie	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 lie	aux
53	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lead	parataxis
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 grass	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 grass	det
56	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lie	obl
57	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 grass	acl
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 noises	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 noises	det
60	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 listening	obl
61	round	round	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 noises	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 dreaming	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 dreaming	cc
65	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lead	advcl
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 days	case
67	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 days	amod
68	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 dreaming	obl
69	in	in	ADP	_	71 jungle	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 jungle	det
71	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 dreaming	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	would	Day after day	the buffaloes			out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
2	see	would	Mowgli			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	know	past	Brother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not come back	past	Shere					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	would	Shere		the grass	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
6	listen	gerund	the grass not said here				to the noises round Gray	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to noise=Theme
7	dream	gerund	Day after day not said here		the jungle	day		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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