The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 75

He knew that there were elephants all round Kala Nag, and that there was no chance of backing him out of the assembly; so he set his teeth and shivered.

Who acts: hustling, elephants, chance · What happens: know, be, back, set, shiver · To what, where: chance, hustling, assembly, teeth

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 (hustling, elephants, chance), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 were	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 were	expl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 Kala	advmod
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 Kala	case
9	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 elephants	nmod
10	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kala	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chance	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chance	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chance	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 chance	det
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 backing	mark
19	backing	back	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 chance	acl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 backing	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 assembly	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 assembly	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 assembly	det
24	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 backing	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 set	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj
28	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 teeth	nmod:poss
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 set	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shivered	cc
32	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 set	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	hustling			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	elephants round Kala		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		no chance		tree rules
4	back	gerund	no chance not said here	hustling	the assembly	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out assembly=Trajectory
5	set	past	hustling	hustling's teeth		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tooth=Result
6	shiver	past	hustling not said here			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: 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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