The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 65

Toomai knew that so long as he lay still on Kala Nag’s neck nothing would happen to him, for even in the rush and scramble of a Keddah drive a wild elephant does not reach up with his trunk and drag a man off the neck of a tame elephant.

Who acts: Toomai, rush · What happens: know, lie, happen, drive, not reach up, drag · To what, where: that, Toomai, nothing, wild elephant, man, neck

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 (Toomai, rush), 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	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 knew	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lay	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	advcl
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 nothing	case
11	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	nmod:poss
12	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Kala	flat
13	’s	's	PART	_	11 Kala	case
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	compound
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 happen	obl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rush	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 rush	case
22	even	even	ADV	_	25 rush	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 rush	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rush	det
25	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reach	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 scramble	cc
27	scramble	scramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rush	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Keddah	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Keddah	det
30	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 scramble	nmod
31	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rush	acl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 elephant	det
33	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 elephant	amod
34	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drive	obj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 reach	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 reach	advmod
37	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happen	parataxis
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 reach	compound:prt
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 trunk	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 trunk	nmod:poss
41	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reach	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 drag	cc
43	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 reach	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 man	det
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drag	obj
46	off	off	ADP	_	48 neck	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 neck	det
48	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drag	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 elephant	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 elephant	det
51	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 elephant	amod
52	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 neck	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Toomai	that				long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	lie	past	Toomai				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	would	Toomai not said here		Toomai	nothing			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nothing=Location
4	drive	infinitive	the rush and scramble of a Keddah not said here	a wild elephant					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme
5	not reach up	present · do-support	the rush and scramble of a Keddah					with Toomai's trunk	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drag	infinitive	the rush and scramble of a Keddah not said here	a man		the neck of a tame elephant			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme off neck=Initial_Location
7	scramble			a Keddah					nom scramble «act transitive»: of=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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