The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 53

Here is meat; break the necks of the bulls!

What happens: be, break · To what, where: necks

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: 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 break	punct
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Here	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 necks	det
7	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 break	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bulls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bulls	det
10	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 necks	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						here property	tree rules
2	break	infinitive		the necks of the bulls					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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