The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 69

Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’ legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.

Who acts: Akela, Mowgli, herd, others · What happens: run, nip, wheel, charge up, manage, turn · To what, where: legs, ravine, Rama, wallows

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 (Akela, Mowgli, herd, others), 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	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Brother	cc
3	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Brother	amod
4	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Akela	conj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 ran	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 managed	cc
8	fro	for	SCONJ	_	9 nipping	mark
9	nipping	nip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 managed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 buffaloes	det
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 legs	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 buffaloes	case
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nipping	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wheeled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wheeled	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 wheeled	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 herd	det
18	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wheeled	nsubj
19	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nipping	conj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 wheeled	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 charge	mark
22	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wheeled	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 charge	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ravine	det
25	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 charge	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	22 charge	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nipping	punct
28	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 managed	nsubj
29	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 turn	mark
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 managed	xcomp
32	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 followed	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 others	det
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 followed	nsubj
37	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 followed	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 wallows	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wallows	det
41	wallows	wallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 followed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Akela and Gray Brother					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nip	gerund	Mowgli not said here	the buffaloes's legs				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leg=Theme
3	wheel	past	the herd				once property	vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	charge up	to-infinitive	the herd not said here	the ravine		again		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ravine=Theme
5	manage	past	Mowgli					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	turn	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	Rama				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rama=Result
7	follow	past	the others	Rama	the wallows			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wallow=Trajectory

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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