The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 131

After that he was taken off timber-hauling, and employed, with a few score other elephants who were trained to the business, in helping to catch wild elephants among the Garo hills.

What happens: take off, employ, train, help, catch · To what, where: that, other elephants, wild elephants

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: 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 taken	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 taken	compound:prt
7	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hauling	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 timber	punct
9	hauling	hauling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 employed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 employed	cc
12	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 score	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 score	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 score	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 score	amod
17	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 employed	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 elephants	amod
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 score	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 trained	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trained	aux:pass
22	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 elephants	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 business	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 business	det
25	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trained	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 helping	punct
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 helping	mark
28	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 employed	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 catch	mark
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 helping	xcomp
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 elephants	amod
32	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 catch	obj
33	among	among	ADP	_	36 hills	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hills	det
35	Garo	Garo	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 hills	compound
36	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 catch	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take off	past · passive	that		tree rules
2	employ	past		with a few score and other elephants	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	train	past · passive	other elephants	to the business	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	help	gerund			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	catch	to-infinitive	wild elephants	among the Garo hills	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme

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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