The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 15
Nearly all our horses for the English cavalry are brought to India from Australia, and are broken in by the troopers themselves.
Who acts: troopers · What happens: bring, break in · To what, where: horses, India, Australia, troopers
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 (troopers), 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 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 horses | det |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 cavalry | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cavalry | det |
| 7 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cavalry | amod |
| 8 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 India | case |
| 12 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Australia | case |
| 14 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 broken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broken | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 broken | aux:pass |
| 18 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 brought | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 broken | compound:prt |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 troopers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 troopers | det |
| 22 | troopers | trooper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 broken | obl |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 broken | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · passive | our horses for the English cavalry | India | Australia | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to india=Destination from australia=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | break in | present · passive | the troopers | troopers = trooper | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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