The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 132

We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.”

Who acts: We, big guns, pieces, dust, many cattle · What happens: go, unyoke, graze, talk, fall out, go up · To what, where: level plain, we, plain

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, big guns, pieces, dust), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 plain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plain	det
5	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plain	compound
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yoke	punct
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 yoke	nummod
9	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plain	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 yoke	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unyoked	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 unyoked	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 unyoked	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unyoked	aux:pass
16	unyoked	unyoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 go	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 unyoked	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 graze	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 graze	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 graze	nsubj
21	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unyoked	advcl
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 talk	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 guns	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 guns	amod
25	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 talk	nsubj
26	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 graze	advcl
27	across	across	ADP	_	29 plain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 plain	det
29	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talk	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plain	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 walls	case
34	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 walls	compound
35	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 town	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fall	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fall	cc
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fall	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 wall	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wall	det
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pieces	nmod
42	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 graze	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 fall	compound:prt
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 goes	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 goes	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 dust	det
47	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 goes	nsubj
48	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	parataxis
49	up	up	ADV	_	48 goes	advmod
50	as	as	ADV	_	55 coming	advmod
51	though	though	SCONJ	_	55 coming	mark
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cattle	amod
53	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 coming	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 coming	aux
55	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 goes	advcl
56	home	home	ADV	_	55 coming	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	We		the level plain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across plain=Initial_Location
2	unyoke	present · passive		we		again		tree rules
3	graze	present	we					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	present	the big guns		the plain to some town with mud walls			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fall out	infinitive	pieces of the wall					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go up	present	the dust					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	come	past · progressive	many cattle				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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