The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 146

I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.

Who acts: I, chain, great sulky white bullocks, elephants, yoke · What happens: hear, drag, not go, come, shoulder · To what, where: chain, ground, heavy siege guns

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chain, great sulky white bullocks, elephants), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 chain	acl
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragging	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 yoke	det
12	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 bullocks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bullocks	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bullocks	amod
16	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bullocks	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bullocks	amod
18	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 yoke	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drag	nsubj
20	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bullocks	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 guns	det
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 guns	amod
23	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guns	compound
24	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drag	obj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 go	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 elephants	det
27	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 go	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 go	advmod
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 drag	advcl
31	any	any	ADV	_	32 nearer	advmod
32	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 go	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 firing	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 firing	det
35	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nearer	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yoke	punct
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
38	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 came	advcl
39	along	along	ADV	_	38 shouldering	advmod
40	together	together	ADV	_	38 shouldering	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	a chain			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chain=Stimulus
2	drag	gerund	a chain not said here		the ground		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location
3	drag	present	the great sulky white bullocks	the heavy siege guns			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
4	not go	future	the elephants			near property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shoulder	gerund	a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks not said here			along, together property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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