The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 93

At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the ravine by the dhk tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers.

Who acts: Shere · What happens: come, not see, laugh, head, cover · To what, where: Gray Brother, signal place, buffaloes, dhk tree

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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
11	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brother	amod
12	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 place	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
15	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 place	compound
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laughed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 headed	cc
22	headed	head	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laughed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 buffaloes	det
24	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 headed	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 ravine	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ravine	det
27	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 headed	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tree	det
30	dhk	dhk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 headed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 covered	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 covered	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 covered	aux:pass
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 covered	advmod
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tree	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	41 flowers	case
38	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flowers	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 golden	punct
40	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flowers	amod
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 covered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	Shere	Gray Brother	the signal place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
3	laugh	past	Shere					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	head	past	Shere not said here	the buffaloes			for the ravine; by the dhk tree	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
5	cover	past · passive		the dhk tree			with golden red flowers; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=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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