The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 29

For the ways of elephants are beyond the wit of any man, black or white, to fathom.

What happens: be, fathom

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 ways	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ways	det
3	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wit	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 elephants	case
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ways	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wit	cop
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 wit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wit	det
9	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wit	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 black	punct
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wit	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 black	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fathom	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fathom	mark
19	fathom	fathom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 black	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						beyond the wit; for the ways of elephants; of any man	tree rules
2	fathom	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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