The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 129

He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Musjid, ten years later; and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big balks of teak in the timberyards at Moulmein.

Who acts: Kala, fellow elephants · What happens: see, die, sunstroke up, call, send down, haul · To what, where: place, Kala, big balks, timberyards · 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 (Kala, fellow 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 elephants	nmod:poss
5	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 elephants	amod
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 die	nsubj
7	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 epilepsy	case
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 epilepsy	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 epilepsy	cc
11	epilepsy	epilepsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 die	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 starvation	cc
13	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 epilepsy	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sunstroke	cc
15	sunstroke	sunstroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 die	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 sunstroke	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sunstroke	obl
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 place	acl
21	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	Musjid	Musjid	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ali	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 years	punct
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 later	obl:unmarked
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 sunstroke	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sent	cc
29	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	33 sent	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sent	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sent	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 sent	aux:pass
33	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seen	conj
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sent	compound:prt
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sent	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 miles	case
37	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thousands	nmod
38	south	south	ADV	_	33 sent	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 haul	mark
40	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sent	advcl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pile	cc
42	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 haul	conj
43	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 balks	amod
44	balks	balk	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pile	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 teak	case
46	teak	teak	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 balks	nmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 timberyards	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 timberyards	det
49	timberyards	timberyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pile	obl
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 Moulmein	case
51	Moulmein	Moulmein	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 timberyards	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	Kala				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	present	Kala's fellow elephants			of cold epilepsy and starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of epilepsy=Causer
3	sunstroke up	past	Kala's fellow elephants not said here		a place	late property	tree rules
4	call	participle		a place not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	send down	past · perfect · passive		Kala		afterward, south property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination thousand=Theme
6	haul	to-infinitive					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	pile	infinitive		big balks of teak	the timberyards at Moulmein		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balk=Theme in timberyard=Destination

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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