The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 31

The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.

Who acts: other herd children, legs, buffaloes · What happens: watch, hurry, carry, cry, go, run away · To what, where: mile, village, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (other herd children, legs, buffaloes), 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 children	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	compound
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watching	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 watching	punct
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cattle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cattle	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	obl
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 mile	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mile	det
12	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	obl:unmarked
13	away	away	ADV	_	6 watching	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hurried	punct
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 watching	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 village	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 village	det
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hurried	obl
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 hurried	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 carry	mark
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 carry	aux
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fast	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carry	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crying	punct
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 carry	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 gone	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 buffaloes	det
31	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gone	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	aux
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 crying	ccomp
34	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gone	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 run	cc
36	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 mad	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 run	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	the other herd children	half mile		with the cattle; away property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	hurry	participle	the other herd children not said here		the village	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination
3	carry	could	children's legs	children = child			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	children's legs not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	past · perfect	the buffaloes			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run away	present	the buffaloes not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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