The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 123

He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength.

Who acts: Kala, that · What happens: remember, push, be, not come · To what, where: full strength

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 remembered	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pad	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 pad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pad	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pad	amod
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pad	compound
9	pad	pad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 forehead	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 forehead	nmod:poss
12	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pad	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gun	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gun	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gun	det
16	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	obl
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gun	amod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 mud	case
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mud	amod
20	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 War	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 War	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 War	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 War	cop
25	before	before	ADP	_	28 War	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 War	det
27	Afghan	Afghan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 War	compound
28	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 1842	case
30	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 War	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 come	advmod
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 strength	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 strength	nmod:poss
40	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 strength	amod
41	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Kala				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	push	gerund	Kala not said here			with a big leather pad on Kala's forehead; at a gun	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at gun=Theme
3	is	past	that		before the Afghan War	of 1842	tree rules
4	not come	past	Kala	Kala's full strength	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to strength=Initial_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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