The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 127
He had carried tents, twelve hundred pounds’ weight of tents, on the march in Upper India.
Who acts: Kala · What happens: carry · To what, where: tents, march
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), 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 | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pounds | nummod |
| 8 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 pounds | case |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tents | case |
| 12 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 march | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 march | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 march | det |
| 16 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 India | case |
| 18 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 India | compound |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 march | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · perfect | Kala | tents | the march in Upper India | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme tent=Beneficiary weight=Value |
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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