The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 149

Last came the screw guns, and Billy the mule carried himself as though he commanded all the troops, and his harness was oiled and polished till it winked.

Who acts: Last, Billy mule, mule, harness · What happens: come, carry, command, oil, polish, wink · To what, where: screw guns, mule, troops, harness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Last, Billy mule, mule, harness), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guns	det
4	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guns	compound
5	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carried	cc
8	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mule	compound
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mule	det
10	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 carried	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 commanded	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 commanded	nsubj
16	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	advcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 troops	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 troops	det
19	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 commanded	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 oiled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 oiled	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 harness	nmod:poss
23	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 oiled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 oiled	aux:pass
25	oiled	oil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 polished	cc
27	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 oiled	conj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 winked	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 winked	nsubj
30	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 polished	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	Last	the screw guns	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gun=Theme
2	carry	past	the Billy mule	mule	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	command	past	mule	all troops	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent troops=Eventuality
4	oil	past · passive		mule's harness	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
5	polish	participle			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	wink	past	harness		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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