The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 50

The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.

Who acts: herd, Akela, echoes, steamers, stones · What happens: pause, give, pitch, shoot, spurt up · To what, where: edge, tongue, full hunting yell, rapids

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 (herd, Akela, echoes, steamers), 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	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 instant	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instant	det
6	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 slope	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slope	det
12	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
15	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 yell	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yell	det
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yell	amod
21	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yell	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hunting	punct
23	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pitched	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pitched	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pitched	nsubj
27	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	parataxis
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 pitched	obl
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 other	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shoot	punct
34	just	just	ADV	_	37 shoot	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 shoot	mark
36	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shoot	nsubj
37	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pitched	conj
38	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shoot	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sand	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sand	det
41	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rapids	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 stones	cc
43	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rapids	conj
44	spurting	spurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 stones	acl
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 spurting	compound:prt
46	round	round	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 spurting	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	the herd		the edge of the slope	for a instant	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
2	give	past	Akela	tongue	the full hunting yell		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	pitch	past	echoes = echo			over one after the other	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over one=Destination
4	shoot	present	steamers	rapids and the sand and stones			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rapid=Theme
5	spurt up	gerund	stones not said here			round echoes = echo	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round they=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/9/50/