The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 46
“Dick Cunliffe’s on my back then, and drives his knees into me, and all I have to do is to watch where I am putting my feet, and to keep my hind legs well under me, and be bridle-wise.”
Who acts: troop horse, all · What happens: drive, have, do, be, put, keep · To what, where: knees, feet, hind legs
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 (troop horse, all), 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 | _ | 11 drives | punct |
| 2 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cunliffe | compound |
| 3 | Cunliffe | Cunliffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Cunliffe | case |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 then | nsubj |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 drives | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drives | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drives | cc |
| 11 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drives | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 drives | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 watch | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 watch | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 watch | nsubj:outer |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 all | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 watch | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 watch | mark |
| 25 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 drives | conj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 putting | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 putting | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 putting | aux |
| 29 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 watch | advcl |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 putting | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 keep | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 keep | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 keep | mark |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 watch | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 legs | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 legs | amod |
| 38 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 keep | obj |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 keep | advmod |
| 40 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 keep | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 wise | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 wise | cc |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 wise | cop |
| 45 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wise | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 bridle | punct |
| 47 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 watch | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drives | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 drives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive in a quote | present | back's knees | then | into the troop horse = horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knee=Theme into i=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the troop horse = horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the troop horse = horse not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | all | watch property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put in a quote | present · progressive | the troop horse = horse | my feet | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | ||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | all not said here | my hind legs | under the troop horse = horse; well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Theme under i=Location | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | infinitive | wise property | tree rules |
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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