The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 139

They will dance, and it behooves thy father, who has swept all the hills of all the elephants, to double-chain his pickets to-night.”

Who acts: men, soldier, father · What happens: dance, behoove, sweep, double · To what, where: father, hills, chain

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 (men, soldier, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dance	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	aux
3	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 behooves	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 behooves	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 behooves	nsubj
7	behooves	behoove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	advcl
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 behooves	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swept	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 swept	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 swept	aux
13	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 father	acl:relcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hills	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swept	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 elephants	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 elephants	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 elephants	det
20	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hills	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 double	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 double	mark
23	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dance	conj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 chain	punct
25	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 double	obj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pickets	nmod:poss
27	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 chain	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 double	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dance	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	dance	future	men = man			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	behoove	present	soldier	thy father		tree rules
3	sweep	present · perfect	thy father	all hills of all elephants		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
4	double	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	chain elephant's pickets	night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chain=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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