The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 133

There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work.

Who acts: one whole department · What happens: be, do, hunt, catch, break in, send up · To what, where: nothing, 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: who acts (one whole department), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 department	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 department	amod
5	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 department	acl:relcl
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 does	obj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 nothing	advmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hunt	cc
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 catch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 catch	cc
15	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 catch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 break	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 break	cc
19	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 break	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 break	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 send	cc
24	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 send	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 send	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 country	cc
28	down	down	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 send	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 needed	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 needed	nsubj:pass
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 needed	aux:pass
34	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 send	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 work	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 needed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one whole department		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	one whole department	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	hunt	infinitive	one whole department not said here	Elephants = elephant			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	catch	infinitive		Elephants = elephant			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	break in	infinitive		Elephants = elephant			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
6	send up	infinitive		Elephants = elephant			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	need	present · passive		Elephants = elephant		for work	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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