The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 21

One new elephant had nearly grubbed up his picket, and Big Toomai took off Kala Nag’s leg chain and shackled that elephant fore-foot to hind-foot, but slipped a loop of grass string round Kala Nag’s leg, and told him to remember that he was tied fast.

Who acts: Big Toomai · What happens: grub up, take off, shackle, slip, tell, remember · To what, where: One new elephant, leg chain, loop, Toomai · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Big Toomai), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 elephant	nummod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grubbed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grubbed	aux
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 grubbed	advmod
6	grubbed	grub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grubbed	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 picket	nmod:poss
9	picket	picket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grubbed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
12	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Toomai	amod
13	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grubbed	parataxis
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 took	compound:prt
16	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 chain	nmod:poss
17	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Kala	flat
18	’s	's	PART	_	16 Kala	case
19	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chain	compound
20	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shackled	cc
22	shackled	shackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 foot	mark
24	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fore	compound
25	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 fore	punct
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shackled	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 foot	case
29	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 foot	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 hind	punct
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shackled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 slipped	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 slipped	cc
34	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 loop	det
36	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slipped	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 string	case
38	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 string	compound
39	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 loop	nmod
40	round	round	ADP	_	44 leg	case
41	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 leg	nmod:poss
42	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Kala	flat
43	’s	's	PART	_	41 Kala	case
44	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slipped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 told	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 told	iobj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 remember	mark
50	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 told	xcomp
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 tied	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 tied	nsubj:pass
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 tied	aux:pass
54	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 remember	ccomp
55	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 tied	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grub up	past · perfect · passive		One new elephant		nearly property	tree rules
2	take off	past	Big Toomai	Kala's leg chain			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
3	shackle	past	Big Toomai not said here			to hind foot	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to foot=Co-Patient
4	slip	past		a loop of grass string		round Kala's leg	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent loop=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past	Big Toomai not said here		Toomai		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	remember not said to happen	to-infinitive	Big Toomai not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	tie	past · passive		Toomai		fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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