The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 110
When a driver boasts of his skill and bravery the other drivers say, “And when didst thou see the elephants dance?”
Who acts: driver, other drivers · What happens: boast, say, do, see · To what, where: thou, elephants dance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (driver, other drivers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 boasts | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boasts | nsubj |
| 4 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 skill | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skill | nmod:poss |
| 7 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boasts | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bravery | cc |
| 9 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skill | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 drivers | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drivers | amod |
| 12 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 didst | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 didst | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 didst | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 didst | advmod |
| 18 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 didst | obj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 didst | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 22 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dance | compound |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 didst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | a driver | of driver's skill and bravery | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | the other drivers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the elephants dance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus |
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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