The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 25

“All this was done last night, and I have counted seventy tracks crossing the river.

Who acts: Machua, seventy tracks · What happens: do, count, cross · To what, where: All, seventy tracks, river

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 (Machua, seventy tracks), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 All	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 counted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 counted	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 counted	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 counted	aux
12	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 done	advcl
13	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tracks	nummod
14	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 counted	obj
15	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 tracks	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crossing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do in a quote	past · passive		All	night	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	count in a quote	present · perfect	Machua	seventy tracks		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme
3	cross in a quote	gerund	seventy tracks not said here	the river		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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