The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 34

He was soothing the buffaloes now by voice, and Akela had dropped far to the rear, only whimpering once or twice to hurry the rear-guard.

Who acts: Shere, Akela · What happens: soothe, drop, whimper, hurry · To what, where: buffaloes, rear, rear guard

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 (Shere, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 soothing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soothing	aux
3	soothing	soothe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffaloes	det
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soothing	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 soothing	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 voice	case
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soothing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dropped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dropped	cc
11	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	aux
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 soothing	parataxis
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 rear	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 rear	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rear	det
17	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whimpering	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 whimpering	advmod
20	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 soothing	conj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 whimpering	advmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 twice	cc
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 once	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hurry	mark
25	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 whimpering	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 guard	det
27	rear	rear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 guard	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 rear	punct
29	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hurry	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soothe	past · progressive	Shere	the buffaloes		now	by voice	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus buffalo=Experiencer
2	drop	past · perfect	Akela		the rear			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to rear=Trajectory
3	whimper	gerund	Shere not said here				once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurry	to-infinitive	Shere not said here	the rear guard				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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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