The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 101

Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan’s head, found himself sprawling on the grass, with a gray wolf standing over him, while Mowgli went on skinning as though he were alone in all India.

Who acts: Buldeo, gray wolf, Mowgli · What happens: stoop, find, sprawl, stand, go on, skin · To what, where: head, Buldeo, grass, India

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buldeo, gray wolf, Mowgli), 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	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stooping	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stooping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stooping	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 stooping	advmod
6	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Buldeo	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	11 head	case
8	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
9	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Shere	flat
10	’s	's	PART	_	8 Shere	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stooping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buldeo	punct
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 found	obj
15	sprawling	sprawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 found	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 grass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprawling	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wolf	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 wolf	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wolf	det
22	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wolf	amod
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprawling	obl
24	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 wolf	acl
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 standing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 went	mark
29	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	conj
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	skinning	skin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 went	advcl
33	as	as	ADV	_	32 skinning	advmod
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 alone	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 alone	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 alone	cop
37	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 skinning	ccomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 India	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 India	det
40	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 alone	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop	past · progressive	Buldeo		Shere's head	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location
2	find	past	Buldeo	Buldeo				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	sprawl	gerund	Buldeo not said here		the grass		with a gray wolf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
4	stand	gerund	a gray wolf not said here				over Buldeo	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location
5	go on	past	Mowgli					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	skin	gerund	Mowgli not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Mowgli		all India		alone property	tree rules

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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