The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 173

Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.

Who acts: monkeys, respecting animal, ruined tanks · What happens: live, say, respect, come, ruin, hold · To what, where: monkeys, little water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monkeys, respecting animal, ruined tanks), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 monkeys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkeys	det
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lived	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 much	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 live	mark
15	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	xcomp
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 live	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 animal	det
20	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 respecting	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 self	punct
22	respecting	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 animal	amod
23	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lived	parataxis
26	within	within	ADP	_	27 eyeshot	case
27	eyeshot	eyeshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eyeshot	nmod
30	except	except	ADP	_	32 times	case
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 times	case
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 come	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 drought	case
34	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 times	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 held	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 held	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tanks	det
38	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	40 ruined	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 half	punct
40	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 tanks	amod
41	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 held	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 reservoirs	cc
43	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tanks	conj
44	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	advcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 water	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 water	amod
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 held	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the monkeys		there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	could · passive		monkeys = monkey				tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive					anywhere property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	respect	gerund						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	would	no respecting animal			time	within eyeshot of eyeshot	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ruin	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	hold	past	the ruined tanks and reservoirs	a little water				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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