The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 75

The catchers, and hunters, and beaters, the men of the regular Keddah, who stayed in the jungle year in and year out, sat on the backs of the elephants that belonged to Petersen Sahib’s permanent force, or leaned against the trees with their guns across their arms, and made fun of the drivers who were going away, and laughed when the newly caught elephants broke the line and ran about.

Who acts: catchers, elephants, drivers, caught elephants · What happens: stay, sit, belong, lean, make, go away · To what, where: backs, trees, fun, 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 (catchers, elephants, drivers, caught elephants), 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	2 catchers	det
2	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stayed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunters	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hunters	cc
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catchers	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beaters	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beaters	cc
8	beaters	beater	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catchers	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 men	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catchers	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Keddah	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Keddah	det
14	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Keddah	amod
15	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 men	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stayed	nsubj
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 year	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 year	det
21	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 year	compound
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	obl
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 year	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 year	cc
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 year	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	18 stayed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stayed	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 backs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 backs	det
31	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 elephants	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 elephants	det
34	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 backs	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 belonged	nsubj
36	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 elephants	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	42 force	case
38	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Sahib	compound
39	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 force	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 Sahib	case
41	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 force	amod
42	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 belonged	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 leaned	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 leaned	cc
45	leaned	lean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sat	conj
46	against	against	ADP	_	48 trees	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trees	det
48	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 leaned	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 guns	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 guns	nmod:poss
51	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 trees	nmod
52	across	across	ADP	_	54 arms	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 arms	nmod:poss
54	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 guns	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 made	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 made	cc
57	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sat	parataxis
58	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 made	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 drivers	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 drivers	det
61	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 fun	nmod
62	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 going	nsubj
63	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 going	aux
64	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 drivers	acl:relcl
65	away	away	ADV	_	64 going	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 laughed	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 laughed	cc
68	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 made	conj
69	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	74 broke	advmod
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 elephants	det
71	newly	newly	ADV	_	72 caught	advmod
72	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 elephants	amod
73	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 broke	nsubj
74	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 laughed	advcl
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 line	det
76	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 broke	obj
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 ran	cc
78	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 laughed	conj
79	about	about	ADV	_	78 ran	advmod
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the catchers and hunters and beaters and the men of the regular Keddah			year	out property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the catchers and hunters and beaters and the men of the regular Keddah not said here		the backs of the elephants			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
3	belong	past	the elephants				to Petersen Sahib's permanent force	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	lean	participle	the catchers and hunters and beaters and the men of the regular Keddah not said here		the trees with men's guns across men's arms			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against tree=Location
5	make	past		fun of the drivers				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
6	go away	past · progressive	the drivers				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	laugh	past						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	catch	participle					newly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	break	past	the caught elephants	the line				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient
10	run about	past					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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