The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 44

He shall take no harm in the Keddah when he runs under their bellies to rope the wild tuskers; and if he slips before the feet of the charging bull elephant, the bull elephant shall know who he is and shall not crush him.

Who acts: grandfather, bull elephant · What happens: take, run, slip, charge, know, be · To what, where: harm, Keddah, wild tuskers, bellies, grandfather · 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 (grandfather, bull elephant), 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	3 take	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 harm	det
5	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Keddah	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Keddah	det
8	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 harm	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 runs	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 runs	nsubj
11	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	advcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 bellies	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bellies	nmod:poss
14	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 runs	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rope	mark
16	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 runs	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tuskers	det
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tuskers	amod
19	tuskers	tusker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 runs	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 know	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 slips	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slips	nsubj
24	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 know	advcl
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feet	det
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 slips	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 elephant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 elephant	det
30	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 elephant	amod
31	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 elephant	compound
32	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slips	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 elephant	det
35	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 elephant	compound
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 know	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 know	aux
38	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	38 know	ccomp
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 who	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 who	cop
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 crush	cc
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 crush	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 crush	advmod
45	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 crush	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	shall	grandfather	no harm	the Keddah		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent harm=Value in keddah=Location
2	run	present	grandfather	the wild tuskers	Keddahs's bellies		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tusker=Theme under belly=Trajectory
3	slip a condition, not said to happen	present	grandfather			before the feet of the charging bull elephant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	charge	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	shall	the bull elephant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	grandfather				tree rules
7	not crush	shall	grandfather not said here	grandfather			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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