The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 141

“For forty years, father and son, we have tended elephants, and we have never heard such moonshine about dances.”

Who acts: we · What happens: tend, not hear · To what, where: elephants, such moonshine

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 (we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tended	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tended	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 son	cc
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 years	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tended	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tended	aux
12	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tended	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 tended	conj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moonshine	amod
21	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 dances	case
23	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moonshine	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tended	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend in a quote	present · perfect	we	elephants			year		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme
2	not hear in a quote	present · perfect	we	such moonshine				about dances	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moonshine=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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