The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 180

Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good riders and plenty of room, And launch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to “Bonnie Dundee”!

Who acts: you · What happens: feed, break, handle, groom, give, launch · To what, where: us, good riders, column, 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 (you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 feed	advmod
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 feed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 break	cc
5	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 feed	conj
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 break	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 handle	cc
8	handle	handle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 break	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 groom	cc
10	groom	groom	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 handle	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 feed	conj
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 riders	amod
16	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plenty	cc
18	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 riders	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 room	case
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plenty	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 launch	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 launch	cc
23	launch	launch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 feed	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 launch	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 column	case
26	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 launch	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 squadron	case
28	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 column	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 launch	conj
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 horse	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 horse	det
35	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 horse	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 war	punct
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 Dundee	case
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 Dundee	punct
40	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Dundee	compound
41	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 horse	nmod
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 Dundee	punct
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 feed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here		us		then	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	break	infinitive	you not said here	us				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient
3	handle	infinitive	you not said here					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	groom	infinitive	you not said here					vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	give	infinitive	you not said here	good riders and plenty of room	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient rider=Theme
6	launch	infinitive	you not said here	us		column of squadron		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent we=Theme in column=Destination
7	see	infinitive	you not said here	the way of the war horse to Bonnie Dundee				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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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