The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 96

He crossed the ranges last night with Tabaqui, hot-foot on thy trail,” said the Wolf, panting.

Who acts: bristle, Wolf · What happens: cross, say, pant · To what, where: ranges · 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 (bristle, Wolf), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ranges	det
4	ranges	range	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crossed	obj
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Tabaqui	case
8	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 foot	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foot	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Tabaqui	appos
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 trail	case
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 trail	nmod:poss
15	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 foot	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Wolf	det
20	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 panting	punct
22	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	bristle	the ranges	night	with Tabaqui	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pant in a quote	gerund	the Wolf not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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