The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 107
They plunged forward in the mud, and managed somehow to run their yoke on the pole of an ammunition wagon, where it jammed.
Who acts: bullocks, yoke · What happens: plunge, manage, run, jam · To what, where: yoke, pole
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullocks, yoke), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plunged | nsubj |
| 2 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 plunged | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mud | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mud | det |
| 6 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plunged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 managed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 managed | cc |
| 9 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 plunged | conj |
| 10 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 9 managed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 managed | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 yoke | nmod:poss |
| 14 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 pole | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pole | det |
| 17 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wagon | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wagon | det |
| 20 | ammunition | ammunition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wagon | compound |
| 21 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pole | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 jammed | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 jammed | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 jammed | nsubj |
| 25 | jammed | jam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wagon | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | bullocks = bullock | in the mud; forward property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mud=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | bullocks = bullock not said here | somehow property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | bullocks = bullock not said here | bullocks's yoke | the pole of a ammunition wagon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yoke=Theme on pole=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | jam | past | yoke | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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