The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 96

Then I ran on, because I did not know how many camels might have got loose, and before long I was out of sight of the camp, plowing my way through the mud.

Who acts: I, many camels · What happens: run on, not know, get, be, plow · To what, where: sight, way, mud · 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 (I, many camels), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 know	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 camels	amod
13	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 got	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 know	ccomp
17	loose	loose	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 long	cc
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 long	case
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ran	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sight	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sight	cop
24	out	out	ADP	_	26 sight	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sight	case
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 long	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 camp	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 camp	det
29	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sight	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 plowing	punct
31	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 way	nmod:poss
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plowing	obj
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 mud	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mud	det
36	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plowing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run on	past	I			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get	might · perfect	many camels				loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	I		sight		of the camp	tree rules
5	plow	gerund	I not said here	my way	the mud			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent way=Initial_Location

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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