The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 74
As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the line that stood ready to start.
Who acts: clerk, line · What happens: pay, go back, join, stand, start · To what, where: man, line
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 (clerk, line), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 paid | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | aux:pass |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joined | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 joined | cc |
| 14 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 line | det |
| 16 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joined | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 line | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stood | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 start | mark |
| 21 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | each man | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | clerk | to clerk's elephant result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to elephant=Result | ||||
| 3 | join | past | clerk not said here | the line | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the line | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | start | to-infinitive | the line not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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