The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 11

Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping.

Who acts: you, flat broad roads, come · What happens: give, tie, exercise, go, camp · To what, where: brick elephant lines, me, lines

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, flat broad roads, come), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lines	compound
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lines	compound
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stall	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stall	nummod
8	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lines	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 elephant	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 elephant	det
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stall	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stumps	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stumps	cc
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stumps	amod
15	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tie	mark
17	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tie	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 safely	case
20	safely	safely	ADV	_	17 tie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 exercise	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 exercise	cc
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 roads	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flat	punct
25	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 roads	amod
26	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 exercise	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 exercise	mark
28	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 exercise	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 go	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 come	det
34	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 go	cc
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 and	punct
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
39	camping	camp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 go	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	brick elephant lines one stall to each elephant	me	big stumps obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient line=Theme
2	tie	to-infinitive	you not said here	lines = line			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to safely=Co-Patient
3	exercise	to-infinitive	flat broad roads				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	infinitive	this come				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	camp	gerund	this come not said here				vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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