The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 79

Then ten or twelve men, each with an iron-bound club three or four feet long, came up, and Kerick pointed out one or two of the drove that were bitten by their companions or too hot, and the men kicked those aside with their heavy boots made of the skin of a walrus’s throat, and then Kerick said, “Let go!” and then the men clubbed the seals on the head as fast as they could.

Who acts: ten men, Kerick, companions, men · What happens: bind, come up, point out, drive, bite, kick · To what, where: one, those, heavy boots, seals, head · 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 (ten men, Kerick, companions, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 men	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 twelve	cc
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ten	conj
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 each	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 club	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 club	det
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bound	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 iron	punct
12	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 club	amod
13	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 each	nmod
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 feet	nummod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 four	cc
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 three	conj
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 long	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 club	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 men	punct
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pointed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pointed	cc
24	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 pointed	nsubj
25	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 pointed	compound:prt
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pointed	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 drove	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drove	det
32	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 two	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 bitten	mark
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bitten	aux:pass
35	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 drove	ccomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 companions	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 companions	nmod:poss
38	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bitten	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 hot	cc
40	too	too	ADV	_	41 hot	advmod
41	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bitten	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kicked	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 kicked	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 men	det
45	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 kicked	nsubj
46	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
47	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 kicked	obj
48	aside	aside	ADV	_	46 kicked	advmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 boots	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 boots	nmod:poss
51	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 boots	amod
52	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 kicked	obl
53	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 boots	acl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 skin	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 skin	det
56	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 made	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	61 throat	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 walrus	det
59	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 throat	nmod:poss
60	’s	's	PART	_	59 walrus	case
61	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 skin	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 said	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 said	cc
64	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	66 said	advmod
65	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 said	nsubj
66	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	parataxis
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 Let	punct
68	“	"	PUNCT	_	69 Let	punct
69	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 said	ccomp
70	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 Let	xcomp
71	!	!	PUNCT	_	69 Let	punct
72	”	"	PUNCT	_	69 Let	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 clubbed	cc
74	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	77 clubbed	advmod
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 men	det
76	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 clubbed	nsubj
77	clubbed	club	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 said	conj
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 seals	det
79	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 clubbed	obj
80	on	on	ADP	_	82 head	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 head	det
82	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 clubbed	obl
83	as	as	ADV	_	84 fast	advmod
84	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	77 clubbed	advmod
85	as	as	SCONJ	_	87 could	mark
86	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	87 could	nsubj
87	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	84 fast	advcl
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle						vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	come up	past	ten men					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	point out	past	Kerick	one				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	drive	past	Kerick not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
5	bite	past · passive	Kerick's companions					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	kick	past	the men	those			with Kerick's heavy boots; aside property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent that=Patient with boot=Instrument
7	make	participle		Kerick's heavy boots not said here			of the skin of a walrus's throat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	say speech: express	past	Kerick			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	let in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
10	go in a quote	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	club	past	the men	the seals	the head	then	fast property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seal=Patient on head=Location

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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