The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 24

“As soon as I heard the camels were loose I came away on my own account.

Who acts: Billy, camels, my · What happens: hear, be, come away, account · To what, where: own account · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Billy, camels, my), 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	_	6 heard	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 heard	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camels	det
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loose	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 loose	cop
10	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	ccomp
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 loose	ccomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 account	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 account	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 account	amod
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	Billy		soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	past	the camels		loose property	tree rules
3	come away in a quote	past	Billy	my own account	away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on account=Location
4	account in a quote		my			nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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