The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 65

The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.

Who acts: real reason, white men · What happens: be, arrive

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real reason, white men), 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	3 reason	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reason	amod
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reason	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	cop
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 killing	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killing	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
10	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sooner	punct
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 means	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 later	cc
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 sooner	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 arrival	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arrival	det
18	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sooner	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arrival	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 elephants	case
23	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 men	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 guns	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 guns	case
26	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 elephants	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hundreds	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hundreds	cc
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 means	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 men	amod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hundreds	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 gongs	case
34	gongs	gong	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 men	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rockets	cc
36	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hundreds	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 torches	cc
38	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hundreds	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real reason for this					mean, soon property	tree rules
2	arrive		white men on elephants						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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