The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 146

A woman--it was Messua--ran across to the herd, and cried: “Oh, my son, my son!

Who acts: sprig, woman · What happens: be, run, cry · To what, where: Messua

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 (sprig, woman), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 Messua	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Messua	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Messua	cop
6	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 woman	appos
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 herd	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 son	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Oh	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 son	vocative
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sprig	Messua		tree rules
2	run	past	a woman		to the herd result; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to herd=Result
3	cry speech: express	past	a woman not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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