The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 144

I take them when they come in my way, but I do not hunt the Bandar-log, or frogs--or green scum on a water-hole, for that matter.”

Who acts: I, branches · What happens: take, come, not hunt · To what, where: branches, way, Bandar log

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hunt	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 hunt	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hunt	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hunt	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hunt	advmod
15	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 log	det
17	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 log	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Bandar	punct
19	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunt	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frogs	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 frogs	cc
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hunt	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 scum	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 scum	cc
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 scum	amod
26	scum	scum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunt	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 hole	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hole	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 water	punct
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scum	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 matter	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 matter	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 matter	det
35	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	I	branches = branch			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	come	present	branches = branch		my way		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	not hunt	present · do-support	I	the Bandar log		for that matter; frogs obl; green scum on a water hole obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent log=Location for matter=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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