The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 43

He put his hands to his mouth and shouted down the ravine--it was almost like shouting down a tunnel--and the echoes jumped from rock to rock.

Who acts: Shere, ravine, echoes · What happens: put, shout down, jump · To what, where: hands, ravine, tunnel, rock

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, ravine, echoes), 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	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shouted	cc
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 shouted	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ravine	det
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 shouting	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shouting	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shouting	aux
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 shouting	advmod
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 shouting	mark
18	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shouted	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 shouting	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tunnel	det
21	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shouting	obj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 jumped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jumped	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 echoes	det
25	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 jumped	nsubj
26	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 rock	case
28	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jumped	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 rock	case
30	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jumped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Shere	Shere's hands		to Shere's mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	shout down speech: express	past	Shere not said here	the ravine			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ravine=Topic
3	shout down speech: express	past · progressive	ravine	a tunnel		almost property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunnel=Topic
4	jump	past	the echoes		rock	to rock result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from rock=Initial_State to rock=Result

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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