The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 81
Why, it took me three years to find out what the men were driving at.
Who acts: it, men · What happens: take, find out, drive · To what, where: me
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 (it, men), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | iobj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 find | compound:prt |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 driving | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 driving | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 driving | aux |
| 15 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 find | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 driving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | me | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | drive | past · progressive | the men | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location |
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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