The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 37

Drive them to and fro as I order.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: drive, fro, order · To what, where: buffaloes

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drive	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	1 Drive	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fro	cc
5	fro	fro	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Drive	conj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 order	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 order	nsubj
8	order	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fro	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here	buffaloes = buffalo	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
2	fro	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	order	present	I		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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