The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 2

In one, the cow-buffaloes stood with their calves in the center, and glared and pawed, ready, if a wolf would only stay still, to charge down and trample the life out of him.

Who acts: cow buffaloes, wolf · What happens: stand, glare, paw, stay, charge down, trample · To what, where: center, life

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 (cow buffaloes, wolf), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stood	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buffaloes	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buffaloes	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cow	punct
7	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 calves	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 calves	nmod:poss
11	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 center	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 center	det
14	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 glared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 glared	cc
17	glared	glare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pawed	cc
19	pawed	paw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 glared	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ready	punct
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pawed	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stay	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 stay	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wolf	det
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stay	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 stay	aux
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 stay	advmod
28	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 glared	conj
29	still	still	ADV	_	28 stay	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 charge	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 charge	mark
32	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stay	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 charge	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 trample	cc
35	trample	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 charge	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 life	det
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trample	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	40 him	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 trample	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the cow buffaloes		the center		in one; with buffaloes's calves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location
2	glare	past						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	paw	past					ready property	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	stay a condition, not said to happen	would	a wolf			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	charge down	to-infinitive	a wolf not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	trample	present	a wolf not said here	the life			out him = he	tree rules

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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