The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 36

And the big brown elephant catchers, the trackers and drivers and ropers, and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest elephants, passed him from one to the other, and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed jungle-cock, to show that he was a forester, initiated and free of all the jungles.

Who acts: men, secrets, big brown elephant catchers, elephants, Toomai · What happens: know, break, pass, mark, kill, show · To what, where: secrets, wildest elephants, Toomai, forehead, breast, forester · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, secrets, big brown elephant catchers, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 passed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 catchers	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 catchers	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 catchers	amod
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catchers	compound
6	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passed	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trackers	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trackers	det
9	trackers	tracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catchers	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drivers	cc
11	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catchers	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ropers	cc
13	ropers	roper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catchers	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 passed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passed	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 men	acl:relcl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 secrets	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 secrets	det
22	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 breaking	mark
24	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 secrets	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 elephants	det
26	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 elephants	amod
27	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 breaking	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 men	punct
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 passed	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 passed	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 marked	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 marked	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 marked	nsubj
39	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	conj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 forehead	nmod:poss
41	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marked	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 blood	case
43	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marked	obl
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 breast	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 breast	det
46	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marked	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	53 cock	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 cock	det
49	newly	newly	ADV	_	50 killed	advmod
50	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 cock	amod
51	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 cock	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 jungle	punct
53	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 breast	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 show	punct
55	to	to	PART	_	56 show	mark
56	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 marked	parataxis
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 forester	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 forester	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 forester	cop
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 forester	det
61	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 show	ccomp
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 initiated	punct
63	initiated	initiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 forester	acl
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 free	cc
65	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 initiated	conj
66	of	of	ADP	_	69 jungles	case
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	69 jungles	det:predet
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 jungles	det
69	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 free	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	the men	all secrets			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
2	break	gerund	all secrets not said here	the wildest elephants			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Patient
3	pass	past	the big brown elephant catchers and the trackers and drivers and ropers	Toomai		from one to the other	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from one=Initial_Location
4	mark	past	elephants = elephant	Toomai's forehead	the breast of a killed jungle cock	with blood	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent forehead=Destination with blood=Theme
5	kill	participle				newly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	show	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Toomai	a forester			tree rules
8	initiate	participle		a forester not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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