The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 138

Sometimes there are big guns in the city that speak back, and some of us are killed, and then there is all the more grazing for those that are left.

Who acts: big guns, city · What happens: be, speak back, kill, leave · To what, where: some, grazing

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 (big guns, city), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 are	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guns	amod
5	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guns	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 speak	nsubj
10	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 city	acl:relcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 speak	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 killed	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 some	nmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux:pass
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 are	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grazing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grazing	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 is	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grazing	cop
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 grazing	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grazing	det
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 grazing	advmod
27	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 are	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 grazing	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 those	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	big guns in the city		there	sometimes property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak back speech: other	present	the city				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill	present · passive		some			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	present		all grazing		for those	tree rules
5	leave	present · passive					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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