The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 137

We eat till we are yoked up again and tug the gun back to where Two Tails is waiting for it.

Who acts: We, Two Tails · What happens: eat, yoke up, tug, wait · To what, where: we, gun

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, Two Tails), 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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 yoked	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 yoked	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 yoked	aux:pass
6	yoked	yoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 eat	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 yoked	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 yoked	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tug	cc
10	tug	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gun	det
12	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tug	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	19 waiting	advmod
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	19 waiting	mark
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 waiting	advmod
16	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Tails	nummod
17	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waiting	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 waiting	aux
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tug	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 waiting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	We				tree rules
2	yoke up	present · passive		we	again		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	tug	infinitive	We not said here	the gun			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gun=Patient
4	wait	present · progressive	Two Tails			for gun	vn exist-47.1 «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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