The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 124

His mother Radha Pyari,--Radha the darling,--who had been caught in the same drive with Kala Nag, told him, before his little milk tusks had dropped out, that elephants who were afraid always got hurt.

Who acts: mother, elephants · What happens: catch, tell, drop out, be, hurt · To what, where: mother, same drive, Kala, little milk tusks, elephants · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, elephants), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
3	Radha	Radha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
4	Pyari	Pyari	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Radha	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Radha	punct
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Radha	punct
7	Radha	Radha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 darling	det
9	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Radha	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 caught	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 caught	aux:pass
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mother	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 drive	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drive	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drive	amod
19	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 Kala	case
21	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 drive	nmod
22	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Kala	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dropped	punct
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 dropped	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tusks	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tusks	amod
30	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tusks	compound
31	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dropped	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dropped	aux
33	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 told	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 dropped	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hurt	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 hurt	mark
37	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hurt	nsubj:pass
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 afraid	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 afraid	cop
40	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elephants	amod
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 afraid	advmod
42	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hurt	aux:pass
43	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 dropped	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		Kala's mother		the same drive with Kala		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Kala's mother		Kala			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	drop out	past · perfect · passive		Kala's little milk tusks				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	elephants				afraid, always property	tree rules
5	hurt	past · passive		elephants				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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