The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 14

The first time I ever saw a man (it was in Australia when I was a three-year-old) I ran for half a day, and if I’d seen a camel, I should have been running still.”

Who acts: I, dark, man · What happens: see, be, run · To what, where: Australia, I

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 (I, dark, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	nsubj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Australia	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Australia	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Australia	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Australia	case
13	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	appos
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 old	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 old	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 old	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 old	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 year	nummod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 three	punct
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 old	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 year	punct
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Australia	advcl
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Australia	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 day	case
27	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	29 day	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seen	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seen	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 seen	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 seen	nsubj
34	’d	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux:pass
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saw	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 camel	det
37	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 running	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 running	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 running	aux
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 running	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 running	aux
43	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 seen	advcl
44	still	still	ADV	_	43 running	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I			ever; time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	dark		Australia			tree rules
3	is	past	I				old property	tree rules
4	run	past	a man			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		I				tree rules
6	run	should · perfect · progressive	I			still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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