The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 139

If you read the old books of natural history, you will find they say that when the mongoose fights the snake and happens to get bitten, he runs off and eats some herb that cures him.

Who acts: you, books, mongoose, snake, herb · What happens: read, find, say, fight, happen, get · To what, where: old books, snake, herb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, books, mongoose, snake), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 read	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 books	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 books	amod
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 history	case
8	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 books	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 say	obl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 fights	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mongoose	det
19	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fights	nsubj
20	fights	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snake	det
22	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fights	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 happens	cc
24	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fights	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 happens	xcomp
27	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 get	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 runs	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 runs	nsubj
30	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	parataxis
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 runs	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eats	cc
33	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 runs	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 herb	det
35	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eats	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 cures	nsubj
37	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 herb	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cures	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	read a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the old books of natural history	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	find	future	you		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	books = book		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fight	present	the mongoose	the snake	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-Agent
5	happen	present	the mongoose not said here		tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive	the mongoose not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	bite	participle	the mongoose not said here		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	run off	present	snake		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	eat	present	snake not said here	some herb	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient
10	cure	present	some herb	snake	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source

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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