The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 134

Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones.

Who acts: Kala · What happens: stand, cut off, bind, prevent, split, do · To what, where: ten fair feet, shoulders, tusks, bands, more

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	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
2	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kala	flat
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 feet	nummod
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 shoulders	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoulders	det
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tusks	nmod:poss
13	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 cut	aux:pass
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	parataxis
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cut	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feet	nummod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 short	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bound	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bound	cc
24	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	parataxis
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 ends	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ends	det
27	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bound	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 prevent	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 prevent	mark
30	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bound	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 prevent	obj
32	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 prevent	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bands	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 bands	case
35	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 splitting	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 copper	case
37	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bands	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 do	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 do	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	parataxis
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 do	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 stumps	case
45	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 stumps	det
46	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 do	obl
47	than	than	ADP	_	50 elephant	case
48	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 elephant	det
49	untrained	untrained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 elephant	amod
50	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stumps	nmod
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 do	parataxis
53	with	with	ADP	_	57 ones	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 ones	det
55	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 ones	amod
56	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 ones	amod
57	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 do	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Kala	ten fair feet	the shoulders			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme at shoulder=Destination
2	cut off	past · perfect · passive		Kala's tusks			short property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	bind	participle				round the ends		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	prevent	to-infinitive		tusks = tusk				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
5	split	gerund		bands of copper				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient
6	do	could	Kala	more				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
7	do	could					with that stumps than any untrained elephant; with the real sharpened ones	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	sharpen	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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