The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 118

They belonged to the tree-tops, and as beasts very seldom look up, there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other’s path.

Who acts: monkeys, occasion · What happens: belong, look up, be, cross · To what, where: path

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, occasion), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belonged	nsubj
2	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 tops	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tops	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tops	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tree	punct
7	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 belonged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 beasts	case
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 look	obl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 seldom	advmod
13	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 belonged	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 look	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 look	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 occasion	det
20	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 monkeys	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 monkeys	det
23	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 occasion	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 People	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 People	det
26	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 People	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Jungle	punct
28	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 monkeys	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cross	mark
30	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 People	acl
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 path	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 other	case
34	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cross	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	past	monkeys = monkey			to the tree tops	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	look up	infinitive	monkeys = monkey not said here			as beasts; seldom property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	be	past	no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle People		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	to-infinitive	no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle People not said here	each other's path			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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