The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 28
We were asleep when the camels came, but when we were trampled on we got up and walked away.
Who acts: We, camels · What happens: be, come, trample, get up, walk away · To what, where: we
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 (We, camels), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asleep | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asleep | cop |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 camels | det |
| 6 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asleep | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trampled | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 trampled | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 trampled | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 trampled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trampled | aux:pass |
| 13 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 asleep | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trampled | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | We | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the camels | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trample | past · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get up | past | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | walk away | past | we not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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