The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 162
They hardly needed Akela’s yell, but charged through the gate like a whirlwind, scattering the crowd right and left.
Who acts: buffaloes, Akela · What happens: need, charge, scatter, leave, yell · To what, where: yell, gate, crowd
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, Akela), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 needed | advmod |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 yell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Akela | case |
| 6 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 charged | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 charged | cc |
| 9 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 needed | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charged | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 whirlwind | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 whirlwind | det |
| 15 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scattering | punct |
| 17 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 charged | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crowd | det |
| 19 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scattering | obj |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 scattering | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 charged | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | buffaloes = buffalo | Akela's yell | hardly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yell=Theme | |||
| 2 | charge | participle | the gate | like a whirlwind | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | scatter | gerund | the crowd | right property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | yell | Akela | nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/9/162/