The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 177

Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again-- Make way there--way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!

Who acts: heroes, we · What happens: avoid, know, upset, come, tug, make · To what, where: cannon ball, heroes, action, guns, 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 (heroes, we), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 heroes	det
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 avoid	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 harnesses	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 harnesses	nmod:poss
5	harnesses	harness	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heroes	nmod
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
8	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ball	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 cannon	punct
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 upsets	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 upsets	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 upsets	nsubj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 powder	case
17	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obl
18	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 avoid	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 upsets	obj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 upsets	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 all	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 one	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 come	advmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 avoid	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 action	case
28	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tug	cc
30	tug	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guns	det
32	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tug	obj
33	again	again	ADV	_	30 tug	advmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 Make	punct
35	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tug	conj
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Make	obj
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 Make	advmod
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 way	punct
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tug	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	43 yoke	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 yoke	det
42	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 yoke	nummod
43	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 way	nmod
44	Of	of	ADP	_	49 train	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 train	det
46	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Pounder	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 Forty	punct
48	Pounder	pounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 train	compound
49	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yoke	nmod
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 avoid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	that heroes in heroes's harnesses	a cannon ball				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Location
2	know	present	heroes = hero				of powder	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of powder=Stimulus
3	upset	present		heroes = hero				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer one=Result
4	come	present	we		action	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into action=Initial_Location
5	tug	infinitive	we not said here	the guns		again	way for the twenty yoke of the Pounder train obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gun=Patient
6	make	infinitive	we not said here	way	there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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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