The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 159

For a minute it seemed as though he were going to draw his sword and slash his way out through the English men and women in the carriages at the back.

Who acts: it, last · What happens: seem, go, draw, slash out · To what, where: sword, way

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 (it, last), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	5 seemed	advmod
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seemed	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 draw	mark
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sword	nmod:poss
14	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slash	cc
16	slash	slash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 draw	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slash	obj
19	out	out	ADV	_	16 slash	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 men	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
22	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slash	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 women	cc
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 men	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 carriages	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 carriages	det
28	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 men	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 back	det
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carriages	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		minute		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	go	past · progressive	last				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	draw	to-infinitive	last not said here	last's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	slash out	infinitive	last not said here	last's way		through the English men in the carriages at the back and women; out property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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