The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 20

All the elephants in the lines jumped up as if they had been shot, and their grunts at last waked the sleeping mahouts, and they came out and drove in the picket pegs with big mallets, and tightened this rope and knotted that till all was quiet.

Who acts: elephants, grunts, all · What happens: jump up, be, wake, come out, drive, peg · To what, where: sleeping mahouts, picket, rope

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elephants, grunts, all), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 elephants	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephants	det
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jumped	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 lines	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lines	det
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elephants	nmod
7	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 jumped	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 shot	case
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 as	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shot	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shot	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 shot	cop
14	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 waked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 waked	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grunts	nmod:poss
18	grunts	grunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 waked	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grunts	nmod
21	waked	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jumped	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mahouts	det
23	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mahouts	compound
24	mahouts	mahout	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 waked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jumped	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drove	cc
31	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 picket	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 picket	det
34	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pegs	obl
35	pegs	peg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 drove	ccomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 mallets	case
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mallets	amod
38	mallets	mallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pegs	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tightened	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tightened	cc
41	tightened	tighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 jumped	parataxis
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 rope	det
43	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tightened	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 knotted	cc
45	knotted	knot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tightened	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 quiet	mark
47	till	till	SCONJ	_	50 quiet	mark
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 quiet	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 quiet	cop
50	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 knotted	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	all elephants in the lines				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	elephants = elephant			as shot	tree rules
3	wake	past	elephants's grunts at last	the sleeping mahouts			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mahout=Patient
4	come out	past	elephants = elephant			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	drive	past	elephants = elephant not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
6	peg	present	elephants = elephant not said here		the picket	with big mallets	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with mallet=Instrument
7	tighten	participle		this rope			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
8	knot	past					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	all			quiet property	tree rules
10	grunt		elephants = elephant				nom grunt «event intransitive»: poss=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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