The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 3

The first thing was to send back word to Baloo and Bagheera, for, at the pace the monkeys were going, he knew his friends would be left far behind.

Who acts: first thing, monkeys, Bagheera · What happens: be, go, know, leave · To what, where: Baloo, pace, friends · 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 (first thing, monkeys, Bagheera), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 send	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 send	advmod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Baloo	case
10	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 send	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Bagheera	cc
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Baloo	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pace	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 pace	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pace	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 pace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pace	det
18	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 monkeys	det
20	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 going	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 pace	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 send	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friends	nmod:poss
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 left	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 left	aux:pass
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 knew	ccomp
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 behind	advmod
32	behind	behind	ADV	_	30 left	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first thing		Baloo and Bagheera	for the pace; send property	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	the monkeys	the pace not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme
3	know	past	Bagheera				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave	would · passive		Bagheera's friends		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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