The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 133

They have their regular roads and crossroads, up hills and down hills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet above ground, and by these they can travel even at night if necessary.

Who acts: People · What happens: have, lay out, travel · To what, where: regular roads, fifty

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 (People), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 roads	nmod:poss
4	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roads	amod
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crossroads	cc
7	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roads	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hills	punct
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 hills	advmod
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roads	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hills	cc
12	down	down	ADV	_	13 hills	advmod
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roads	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feet	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 feet	det:predet
16	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 all	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 laid	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 fifty	case
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 laid	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 seventy	case
21	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fifty	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 hundred	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hundred	det
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 feet	nummod
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roads	conj
26	above	above	ADP	_	27 ground	case
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feet	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 travel	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 travel	cc
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 these	case
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 travel	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 travel	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 travel	aux
34	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 night	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 night	case
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 travel	obl
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 necessary	mark
39	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 travel	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	People	People's regular roads and crossroads and hills and hills and all hundred feet above ground				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	lay out	participle			fifty to seventy			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from fifty=Material
3	travel	can	People			night	by these	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by this=Trajectory

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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