The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 87

The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives--savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.

Who acts: hundred men · What happens: bring, not see · To what, where: Amir, camp, lives

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 (hundred men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Amir	det
2	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bodyguard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bodyguard	det
9	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horses	cc
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 men	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 seen	advmod
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 men	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 camp	det
20	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 locomotive	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 locomotive	det
23	locomotive	locomotive	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 camp	conj
24	before	before	ADV	_	18 seen	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 lives	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lives	nmod:poss
27	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seen	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 men	punct
29	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lives	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 horses	cc
32	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 horses	amod
33	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lives	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 somewhere	case
35	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 seen	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 back	det
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Asia	case
40	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Asia	flat
41	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 back	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect · passive		the Amir				with camp; for a bodyguard	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination man=Theme
2	not see	past · perfect	hundred men and horses	a camp or a locomotive		horses's lives and savage men and savage horses		at the back of Central Asia; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer camp=Stimulus

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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