The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 132
The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young buffalo bellowed in pain.
Who acts: old Tower musket, young buffalo · What happens: go off, bellow · To what, where: pain
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 (old Tower musket, young buffalo), 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 | 4 musket | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 musket | amod |
| 3 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 musket | compound |
| 4 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bang | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bang | det |
| 9 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bellowed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bellowed | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 buffalo | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 buffalo | amod |
| 14 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bellowed | nsubj |
| 15 | bellowed | bellow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pain | case |
| 17 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bellowed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the old Tower musket | with a bang | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bellow | participle | a young buffalo | pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=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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