The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 153
“My father was a Southern gentleman, and he could pull down and bite and kick into rags every horse he came across.
Who acts: father, gentleman · What happens: be, pull down, bite, kick, come · To what, where: Southern gentleman, horse, rags
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 (father, gentleman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gentleman | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gentleman | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gentleman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gentleman | det |
| 6 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gentleman | amod |
| 7 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pull | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pull | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pull | aux |
| 12 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gentleman | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 pull | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bite | cc |
| 15 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pull | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kick | cc |
| 17 | kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bite | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 rags | case |
| 19 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kick | obl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kick | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 horse | acl:relcl |
| 24 | across | across | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gentleman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | My father | a Southern gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull down in a quote | could | gentleman | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bite in a quote | present | gentleman not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kick in a quote | present | gentleman not said here | every horse | into rags result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent horse=Patient into rag=Result | |||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | gentleman | every horse not said here | across property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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