The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 126
But a shower of stones whistled about his ears, and the villagers shouted: “Sorcerer!
Who acts: shower, villagers · What happens: whistle, shout · To what, where: Sorcerer
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 (shower, villagers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 whistled | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shower | det |
| 3 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stones | case |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shower | nmod |
| 6 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 whistled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shouted | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 villagers | det |
| 13 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shouted | nsubj |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whistled | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sorcerer | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sorcerer | punct |
| 17 | Sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | a shower of stones | about shower's ears | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ear=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the villagers | Sorcerer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorcerer=Topic |
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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