The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 123

The herd rounded up in the misty twilight, and when they got near the village Mowgli saw lights, and heard the conches and bells in the temple blowing and banging.

Who acts: buffaloes, herd, temple · What happens: round up, get, see, hear, blow, bang · To what, where: herd, misty twilight, village, lights, conches, temple

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 (buffaloes, herd, temple), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
3	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herd	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rounded	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 twilight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twilight	det
7	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 twilight	amod
8	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rounded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 got	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	advcl
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
17	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 conches	det
24	conches	conche	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heard	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bells	cc
26	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 conches	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 temple	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 temple	det
29	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
30	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 temple	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 banging	cc
32	banging	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 blowing	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	round up	participle		the herd not said here	the misty twilight	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	past	buffaloes = buffalo		the village	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past	the herd	lights		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
4	hear	past	the herd not said here	the conches and bells	the temple	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conche=Stimulus
5	blow	gerund	the temple not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	bang	gerund	the temple not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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