The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 82

He went into the Keddah at the last drive, and threw Barmao there the rope, when we were trying to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from his mother.”

Who acts: boy, we · What happens: go, throw, try, get · To what, where: Keddah, rope, Barmao, young calf, shoulder

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 (boy, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 Keddah	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Keddah	det
5	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 drive	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drive	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drive	amod
9	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
13	Barmao	Barmao	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 threw	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rope	det
16	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trying	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 trying	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 trying	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 trying	aux
21	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 trying	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 calf	mark
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 calf	amod
26	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 blotch	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 blotch	det
29	blotch	blotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 calf	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 shoulder	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoulder	nmod:poss
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
33	away	away	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 mother	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mother	nmod:poss
36	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 away	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	boy			the Keddah	at the last drive	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into keddah=Initial_Location
2	throw	past		the rope	Barmao	there		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent barmao=Destination rope=Theme
3	try	past · progressive	we					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	young calf		boy's shoulder	with the blotch; away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent calf=Theme on shoulder=Source

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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