The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 118
Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back over his shoulder in case Mowgli should change into something terrible.
Who acts: Buldeo, looking · What happens: hobble away, look back, change · To what, where: village, something
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, looking), 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 | 2 hobbled | nsubj |
| 2 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 hobbled | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hobbled | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 hobbled | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fast | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 change | csubj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 Mowgli | case |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shoulder | nmod |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 change | aux |
| 22 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hobbled | parataxis |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 something | case |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 change | obl |
| 25 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 something | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble away | past | Buldeo | the village | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 2 | look back | gerund | over Buldeo's shoulder in Mowgli | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme | |||||
| 3 | change | should | looking | into something result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into something=Result |
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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