The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 36
At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.
Who acts: last Mowgli, grassy patch · What happens: round up, bewilder, slope · To what, where: bewildered herd, head
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 (last Mowgli, grassy patch), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 rounded | mark |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mowgli | amod |
| 3 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rounded | nsubj |
| 4 | rounded | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rounded | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 herd | det |
| 7 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 herd | amod |
| 8 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rounded | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rounded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ravine | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ravine | det |
| 14 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 patch | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 patch | det |
| 17 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 patch | amod |
| 18 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rounded | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sloped | nsubj |
| 20 | sloped | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 patch | acl:relcl |
| 21 | steeply | steeply | ADV | _ | 22 down | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 sloped | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ravine | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ravine | det |
| 25 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sloped | obl |
| 26 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 25 ravine | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round up | past | last Mowgli | the bewildered herd | the head of the ravine | on a grassy patch | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herd=Patient | ||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | slope | past | a grassy patch | to the ravine ravine; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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