Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 65

They could hear Painted Jaguar roaring up and down among the trees and the bushes by the side of the turbid Amazon, till his Mummy came.

Who acts: Slow, Painted, Mummy · What happens: hear, roar, come · To what, where: Painted, trees

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slow, Painted, Mummy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	3 hear	obj
5	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Painted	flat
6	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 roaring	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 down	cc
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 up	conj
10	among	among	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roaring	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bushes	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bushes	det
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trees	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaring	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Amazon	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Amazon	det
21	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Amazon	amod
22	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 side	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Mummy	nmod:poss
26	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	Slow	Painted			tree rules
2	roar	gerund	Painted not said here		the trees and the bushes	by the side of the turbid Amazon	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location
3	come	past	Painted's Mummy				vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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