The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 102
“We sat down--a hundred of us,” the camel went on, “in a big square, and the men piled our packs and saddles, outside the square, and they fired over our backs, the men did, on all sides of the square.”
Who acts: We, camel, men, packs · What happens: sit down, go on, pile, fire, do · To what, where: hundred, big square, packs, backs, sides
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, camel, men, packs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 hundred | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hundred | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 camel | det |
| 13 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 square | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 square | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 square | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 square | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 square | amod |
| 21 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 piled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 piled | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 men | det |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 piled | nsubj |
| 26 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 packs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 piled | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saddles | cc |
| 30 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 packs | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 square | punct |
| 32 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 34 square | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 square | det |
| 34 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piled | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fired | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fired | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fired | nsubj |
| 38 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 backs | case |
| 40 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 backs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fired | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 did | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 men | det |
| 44 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 did | nsubj |
| 45 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 sides | punct |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 sides | case |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 sides | det |
| 49 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 did | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 square | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 square | det |
| 52 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sides | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | past | We | a hundred of us | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go on | past | the camel | a big square | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in square=Location | ||||
| 3 | pile in a quote | past | the men | our packs and saddles | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fire in a quote | past | packs = pack | our backs | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over back=Destination | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | the men | all sides of the square | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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