The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 13
The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows.
Who acts: bulls, Akela, Gray Brother · What happens: sweep off, bay, stop · To what, where: front
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 (bulls, Akela, Gray Brother), 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 bulls | det |
| 2 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swept | nsubj |
| 3 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 swept | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bayed | mark |
| 6 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bayed | nsubj |
| 7 | bayed | bay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swept | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | cc |
| 10 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brother | amod |
| 11 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swept | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cows | det |
| 17 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 front | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep off | past | the bulls | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bay | past | Akela | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | Gray Brother | front of the cows | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
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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