The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 135

They told him that men had always driven the holluschickie--it was part of the day’s work--and that if he did not like to see ugly things he should not have gone to the killing grounds.

Who acts: seals, holluschickie, Kotick, day · What happens: tell, drive, be, not like, see, not go · To what, where: Kotick, men, part, ugly things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seals, holluschickie, Kotick, day), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 driven	mark
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 driven	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 driven	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 driven	advmod
8	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 holluschickie	det
10	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 driven	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 part	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 part	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 part	cop
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holluschickie	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 work	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 day	case
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 like	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gone	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 gone	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 gone	aux
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 things	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 grounds	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 grounds	det
39	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grounds	compound
40	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 gone	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	seals = seal		Kotick		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drive	past · perfect · passive		men		always property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme holluschickie=Destination
3	is a	past	holluschickie	part		of the day's work	tree rules
4	not like a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Kotick				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kotick not said here	ugly things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	not go	should · perfect	Kotick	ugly things not said here		to the killing grounds	tree rules
7	work		the day				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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