The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 68

She must have broken her pickets and come straight from Petersen Sahib’s camp; and Little Toomai saw another elephant, one that he did not know, with deep rope galls on his back and breast.

Who acts: chain, Little Toomai, Toomai · What happens: break, come, see, not know, gall · To what, where: pickets, camp, elephant, back

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 (chain, Little Toomai, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broken	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 broken	aux
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pickets	nmod:poss
6	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broken	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 camp	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 camp	case
11	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 camp	nmod:poss
12	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Petersen	flat
13	’s	's	PART	_	11 Petersen	case
14	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
17	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Toomai	amod
18	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	parataxis
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 elephant	det
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 saw	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 know	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 one	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 galls	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 rope	case
31	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rope	amod
32	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 galls	obl
33	galls	gall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 back	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 back	nmod:poss
36	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 galls	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 breast	cc
38	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 back	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	must · perfect	chain	chain's pickets			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picket=Patient
2	come	present	chain not said here		Petersen's camp		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from camp=Initial_Location
3	see	past	Little Toomai	another elephant			tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	Toomai				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	gall	present	Little Toomai not said here		Toomai's back and breast	with deep rope	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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