The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 97

At last I fell over the tail-end of a gun, and by that knew I was somewhere near the artillery lines where the cannon were stacked at night.

Who acts: I · What happens: fall, know, be, stack · To what, where: last, artillery lines, cannon · 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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tail	punct
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gun	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gun	det
12	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 knew	obl
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 somewhere	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 somewhere	cop
20	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 knew	ccomp
21	near	near	ADP	_	24 lines	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lines	det
23	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lines	compound
24	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knew	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 stacked	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cannon	det
27	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stacked	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stacked	aux:pass
29	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lines	acl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 night	case
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stacked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	I		last	over the tail end of a gun		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	know	past	I not said here		the artillery lines		by that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	I				somewhere property	tree rules
4	stack	past · passive		the cannon		night		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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