The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 22
It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bubbled; and my head-rope broke, and I couldn’t find my driver, and I couldn’t find you, Billy, so I ran off with--with these gentlemen.”
Who acts: harness, trees, head rope, I · What happens: be, fall up, bubble, break, not find, run off · To what, where: Things, driver, you
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 (harness, trees, head rope, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Things | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Things | cop |
| 3 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 trees | case |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Things | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Things | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lines | cc |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 lines | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lines | det |
| 14 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bubbled | cc |
| 16 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broke | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rope | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rope | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 head | punct |
| 22 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Things | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 28 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 find | advmod |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 broke | conj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 driver | nmod:poss |
| 31 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 find | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 find | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 36 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 find | advmod |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 find | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 find | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Billy | punct |
| 40 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 find | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ran | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 ran | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 ran | nsubj |
| 44 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 broke | conj |
| 45 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 ran | compound:prt |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 gentlemen | case |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 with | punct |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 gentlemen | case |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 gentlemen | det |
| 50 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 ran | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Things | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | harness | Things | like trees | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall up | past | trees = tree | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bubble | past | trees = tree not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | break | past | my head rope | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not find | could | I | my driver | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not find | could | I | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme billy=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | run off | past | I | with this gentlemen | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with gentleman=Material |
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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