The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 120
An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angrily, crying: “Bring up Kala Nag, and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior.
What happens: turn round, cry, bring up, knock · To what, where: Assamese driver, Kala, youngster, good behavior · 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: 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | Assamese | assamese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driver | compound |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 elephants | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 elephants | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 driver | conj |
| 9 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 8 elephants | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 driver | acl:relcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 angrily | advmod |
| 13 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bring | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bring | punct |
| 18 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 driver | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 Bring | compound:prt |
| 20 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bring | obj |
| 21 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kala | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knock | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knock | cc |
| 24 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 Bring | parataxis |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 youngster | det |
| 26 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knock | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mine | case |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 youngster | nmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 behavior | case |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 behavior | amod |
| 31 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knock | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 driver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | participle | a Assamese driver and two elephants not said here | angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring up in a quote | infinitive | Kala | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kala=Patient | |||||
| 4 | knock in a quote | infinitive | this youngster of mine | good behavior | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent youngster=Theme into behavior=Destination |
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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