The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 147

Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.

Who acts: big guns, I, Two Tails, twenty yoke · What happens: come by, see, harness, walk behind · To what, where: Two Tails, line

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 (big guns, I, Two Tails, twenty yoke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:2406): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guns	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guns	amod
4	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 came	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	Two	two	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Tails	compound
12	Tails	Tails	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 elephants	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 elephants	nummod
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 elephants	amod
16	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Tails	conj
17	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 saw	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 line	case
19	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harnessed	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	26 gun	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gun	det
22	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 pounder	nummod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 forty	punct
24	pounder	pounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 siege	compound
25	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gun	compound
26	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harnessed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 walked	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 walked	mark
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 yoke	nummod
30	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 walked	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 oxen	case
32	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 yoke	nmod
33	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	advcl
34	behind	behind	ADV	_	33 walked	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come by	past	the big guns			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	I	Two Tails and two other elephants				tree rules
3	harness	participle	Two Tails and two other elephants not said here		line		to a siege gun	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to gun=Co-Patient
4	walk behind	past	twenty yoke of oxen				behind property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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