The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 59

“Head off that drove of four-year-olds.

Who acts: Head · What happens: drive

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 (Head), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 drove	punct
2	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	nsubj
3	off	off	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Head	nmod
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 olds	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 four	punct
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 olds	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drove	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive in a quote	past	Head off that					of year olds	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of old=Trajectory

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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