The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 21, sentence 3
See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching, writhing, rolling far, Sweeping all away to war!
Who acts: you · What happens: see, bend, reach, roll, sweep · To what, where: line, plain, heel rope, writhing
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21. 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 line | nmod:poss |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 plain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plain | det |
| 6 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rope | punct |
| 8 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 12 rope | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rope | det |
| 10 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rope | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 heel | punct |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 13 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rope | acl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 bent | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Reaching | punct |
| 16 | Reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 See | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 writhing | punct |
| 18 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Reaching | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolling | punct |
| 20 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Reaching | conj |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 rolling | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sweeping | punct |
| 23 | Sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Reaching | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 Sweeping | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | our line | the plain | like a heel rope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | bend | participle | a heel rope not said here | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | you not said here | writhing | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent writhing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | you not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sweep | gerund | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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