The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 93

I knew who “they” were, so I put on my boots and waterproof and scuttled out into the slush.

Who acts: I, men · What happens: know, be, put, scuttle out · To what, where: boots, slush

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knew	obj
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 were	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 they	punct
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 who	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 put	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 boots	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 boots	nmod:poss
14	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 waterproof	cc
16	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boots	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scuttled	cc
18	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 waterproof	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 scuttled	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 slush	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 slush	det
22	slush	slush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scuttled	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	know	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
2	be	past	men = man		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	past	I	my boots	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on boot=Destination
4	scuttle out	participle	I not said here	the slush	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into slush=Destination

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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