The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 138

Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again.

Who acts: Mowgli, man, branches · What happens: see, lash, be · To what, where: green jungle, sea, Mowgli, face

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 (Mowgli, man, branches), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 miles	case
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 miles	cc
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 miles	conj
9	across	across	ADP	_	13 jungle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jungle	det
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 green	advmod
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jungle	amod
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mast	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mast	det
23	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 top	nmod
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 miles	case
27	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obl
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lash	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lash	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 lash	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 branches	det
35	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lash	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 leaves	cc
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 branches	conj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 lash	aux
39	lash	lash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lash	obj
41	across	across	ADP	_	43 face	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 face	det
43	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lash	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 down	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 down	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 down	nsubj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 guards	cc
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 guards	nmod:poss
49	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 guards	nummod
50	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 he	conj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 down	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 down	cop
53	almost	almost	ADV	_	54 down	advmod
54	down	down	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 earth	case
56	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 down	obl
57	again	again	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	Mowgli		the green jungle	again	for miles and miles; sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	can	a man on the top of a mast		the sea		for miles	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	lash	would	the branches and leaves	Mowgli	the face	then		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	is	would	Mowgli				to earth; almost, down property	tree rules

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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