The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 41

We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and again, four hundred and fifty of us, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.”

Who acts: We, new recruit, whip snakes · What happens: break out, get, tell, be · To what, where: pickets, tales, home · 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 (We, new recruit, whip snakes), 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 broken	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 pickets	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pickets	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pickets	nmod:poss
7	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broken	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 again	punct
9	again	again	ADV	_	3 broken	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 again	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 again	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hundred	punct
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 broken	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fifty	cc
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fifty	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 got	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 recruit	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 recruit	amod
24	recruit	recruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	conj
26	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 telling	mark
27	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 got	advcl
28	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 telling	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 snakes	case
30	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 snakes	compound
31	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tales	nmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 telling	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Australia	case
35	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 home	nmod
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 scared	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 scared	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scared	cop
39	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 telling	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 death	case
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 scared	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 ends	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ends	det
44	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ends	amod
45	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 scared	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	50 ropes	case
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 ropes	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ropes	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 head	punct
50	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 ends	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broken	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break out	present · perfect	We	our pickets		again	four hundred obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picket=Patient
2	get	past	a new recruit					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	a new recruit not said here	tales of whip snakes	home in Australia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	is	past	we			of the loose ends of our head ropes	to death; scared property	tree rules
5	tell		whip snakes					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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