The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 18
The first time they put the full harness with all its chains on my back I stood on my forelegs and kicked every bit of it off.
Who acts: troopers, I · What happens: put, stand, kick off · To what, where: full harness, back, forelegs, bit
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, I), 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 | 5 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 harness | det |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harness | amod |
| 8 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 chains | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 chains | det:predet |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chains | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 forelegs | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forelegs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forelegs | foreleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kicked | cc |
| 22 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | conj |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 bit | det |
| 24 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kicked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bit | nmod |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 kicked | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | troopers = trooper | the full harness | my back | time | with harness's chains | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent harness=Theme on back=Destination | |
| 2 | stand | past | I | my forelegs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foreleg=Location | ||||
| 3 | kick off | past | I not said here | every bit of harness | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bit=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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