The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 39

One night he slid down from the post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose end of a rope, which had dropped, to a driver who was trying to get a purchase on the leg of a kicking young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals).

Who acts: Kya, driver, calves · What happens: slide down, slip in, throw up, drop, try, get · To what, where: post, loose end, rope, driver, purchase, leg

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 (Kya, driver, calves), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slid	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	nsubj
4	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 slid	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 post	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 post	det
8	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slid	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slipped	cc
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slid	conj
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 slipped	advmod
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 elephants	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 elephants	det
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slipped	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slid	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 threw	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
19	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 end	amod
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rope	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rope	det
23	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dropped	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 dropped	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dropped	aux
27	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 rope	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 driver	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 driver	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 driver	det
31	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 trying	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 trying	aux
34	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 driver	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 trying	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 purchase	det
38	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 leg	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 leg	det
41	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 calf	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 calf	det
44	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 calf	amod
45	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 calf	amod
46	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 leg	nmod
47	(	(	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
48	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 give	nsubj
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	50 give	advmod
50	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 calf	acl:relcl
51	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 trouble	amod
52	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obj
53	than	than	ADP	_	57 animals	case
54	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 grown	amod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 full	punct
56	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 animals	amod
57	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 trouble	nmod
58	)	)	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide down	past	Kya			the post	night	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from post=Trajectory
2	slip in	past	Kya not said here					between the elephants	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	throw up	past	Kya not said here	the loose end of a rope					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent end=Theme
4	drop	past · perfect · passive		a rope	a driver				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to driver=Destination
5	try	past · progressive	a driver						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	a driver not said here	a purchase		the leg of a kicking young calf			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent purchase=Theme on leg=Source
7	kick	gerund							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
8	give	present	calves	more trouble				than grown animals; always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
9	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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