The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 5

Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, `Room for the King’s elephant!’

Who acts: I, men · What happens: sit, run, cry · To what, where: O Kala, neck

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 (I, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sit	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Kala	punct
9	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kala	compound
10	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
11	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kala	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ankus	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 ankus	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ankus	det
15	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ankus	amod
16	ankus	ankus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 run	cc
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 run	aux
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 run	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 sticks	case
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sticks	amod
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crying	punct
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 run	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Room	punct
30	`	`	PUNCT	_	31 Room	punct
31	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 elephant	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 elephant	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 King	case
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Room	nmod
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	shall	I	O Kala	thy neck	then	with a silver ankus; Room for the King's elephant obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location
2	run	future	men			before us	with golden sticks	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Trajectory
3	cry speech: express	gerund	men not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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