The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 57

The herd splashed through the pool he had just left, bellowing till the narrow cut rang.

Who acts: Shere, herd · What happens: splash, leave, bellow, ring · To what, where: herd, pool

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, herd), 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	17 rang	nsubj
3	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herd	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 pool	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 splashed	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 pool	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bellowing	punct
12	bellowing	bellow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 left	advcl
13	till	till	ADP	_	16 cut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cut	det
15	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cut	amod
16	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bellowing	obl
17	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	splash	participle		the herd not said here	the pool		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pool=Location
2	leave	past · perfect	Shere	the pool not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Theme
3	bellow	gerund	Shere not said here			till the narrow cut	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ring	past	the herd				vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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