The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 50

That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up.

Who acts: bent jungle grass · What happens: make, try, recover, stand up · To what, where: That, front

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 (bent jungle grass), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	already	already	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feet	nummod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wide	obl:unmarked
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 front	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 front	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trying	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 trying	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
17	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grass	amod
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grass	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 jungle	punct
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trying	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trying	aux
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 front	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 recover	mark
24	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trying	xcomp
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 recover	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stand	cc
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 recover	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 stand	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		That	front of Kala	wide property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	try	past · progressive	the bent jungle grass				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	recover not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bent jungle grass not said here	front			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
4	stand up	infinitive	the bent jungle grass not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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