The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 72

The next few days were spent in getting the elephants together, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giving too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.

What happens: spend, get, walk, catch, prevent, give · To what, where: next few days, elephants, caught wild elephants, couple, thorns, much trouble

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spent	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spent	aux:pass
6	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spent	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephants	det
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 getting	obj
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 getting	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walking	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 walking	mark
14	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 getting	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elephants	det
16	newly	newly	ADV	_	17 caught	advmod
17	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 elephants	amod
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 elephants	amod
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 walking	obj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 elephants	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 down	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	20 up	conj
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 couple	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 couple	det
25	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ones	case
27	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 couple	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 prevent	mark
30	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 walking	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 prevent	obj
32	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 prevent	xcomp
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trouble	amod
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 giving	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 march	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 march	det
38	downward	downward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 march	amod
39	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 giving	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 plains	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 plains	det
42	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 giving	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 taking	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 taking	cc
45	in	in	SCONJ	_	46 taking	mark
46	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spent	advcl
47	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 taking	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 blankets	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 blankets	det
50	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 taking	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 ropes	cc
52	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 blankets	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 things	cc
54	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 blankets	conj
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 worn	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 worn	aux
57	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 worn	aux:pass
58	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 things	acl:relcl
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 worn	compound:prt
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	61 lost	cc
61	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 worn	conj
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 forest	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 forest	det
64	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 lost	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive	the next few days				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	get	gerund	the elephants			together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus
3	walk	gerund	the caught wild elephants		a couple of tame ones		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme between couple=Trajectory
4	catch	participle				newly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	prevent	to-infinitive	thorns = thorn				tree rules
6	give	gerund	much trouble	the plains	the downward march		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on march=Asset to plain=Recipient
7	take	gerund	stock			of the blankets and ropes and things	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stock=Theme of blanket=Initial_Location
8	wear out	past · perfect · passive	things				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
9	lose	participle			the forest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality

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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