The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 69

The man was lying on the ground, and I stretched myself not to tread on him, and he slashed up at me.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: lie, stretch, not tread, slash up · To what, where: ground, myself

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 (man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stretched	nsubj
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	parataxis
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 stretched	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tread	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tread	mark
15	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stretched	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tread	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slashed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 slashed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slashed	nsubj
21	slashed	slash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stretched	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 slashed	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 slashed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the man		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	stretch	past	I	myself			tree rules
3	not tread	to-infinitive	I not said here			on man	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
4	slash up	past	man			at me	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at i=Patient

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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