The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 34

Men shoot us in the water and club us on the land; Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame, And still we sing Lukannon—before the sealers came.

Who acts: Men, we, sealers · What happens: shoot, drive, sing, come · To what, where: us, water, Salt House, Lukannon

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 (Men, we, sealers), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	nsubj
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shoot	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoot	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 club	cc
8	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 water	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoot	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drive	punct
14	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drive	nsubj
15	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shoot	parataxis
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 drive	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 House	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 House	det
19	Salt	Salt	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 House	compound
20	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 drive	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 sheep	case
22	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sheep	amod
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drive	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tame	cc
25	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sheep	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sing	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 sing	cc
28	still	still	ADV	_	30 sing	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sing	nsubj
30	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drive	parataxis
31	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sing	obj
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sealers	det
35	sealers	sealer	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sing	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	Men	us	the water us and club		on the land	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent we=Theme in water=Destination
2	drive	present	Men	us	the Salt House		like silly sheep	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme to house=Trajectory
3	sing speech: express	present	we	Lukannon		still		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lukannon=Theme
4	come	past	the sealers					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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