The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 128

He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal.

Who acts: Emperor Theodore, soldiers · What happens: hoist, take, make, carry, see, lie · To what, where: Kala, ship, water, mortar, back, Emperor Theodore · 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 (Emperor Theodore, soldiers), 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	4 hoisted	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hoisted	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hoisted	aux:pass
4	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 ship	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoisted	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoisted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 crane	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crane	det
13	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crane	compound
14	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hoisted	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	obl
19	across	across	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hoisted	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mortar	det
28	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	37 country	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 country	det
34	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 country	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rocky	cc
36	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 strange	conj
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 far	advmod
39	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 carry	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 India	case
41	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 far	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 seen	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 seen	cc
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 seen	aux
45	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hoisted	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Theodore	det
47	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Theodore	compound
48	Theodore	Theodore	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 seen	obl
49	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 Theodore	acl
50	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 lying	xcomp
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 Magdala	case
52	Magdala	Magdala	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 lying	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 come	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 come	cc
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 come	aux
56	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hoisted	conj
57	back	back	ADV	_	56 come	advmod
58	again	again	ADV	_	56 come	advmod
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 steamer	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 steamer	det
61	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 entitled	obl
62	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 come	advcl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 said	punct
64	so	so	ADV	_	67 said	advmod
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 soldiers	det
66	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 said	nsubj
67	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hoisted	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 medal	punct
69	to	to	ADP	_	73 medal	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 medal	det
71	Abyssinian	Abyssinian	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 War	compound
72	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 medal	compound
73	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 said	ccomp
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hoisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoist	past · perfect · passive		Kala	a ship	at the end of a steam crane		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into ship=Destination at end=Initial_Location
2	take	participle			the water	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	participle						tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive		a mortar	Kala's back		in a strange country; far property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mortar=Value in country=Location
5	see	past · perfect		the Emperor Theodore				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	lie	gerund	the Emperor Theodore not said here		Magdala		dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in magdala=Location
7	come back	past · perfect				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	entitle	past			the steamer			tree rules
9	say speech: assert	past	the soldiers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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