The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 127

_Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.

Who acts: _, leaping lines · What happens: join, scumfish · To what, where: leaping lines, pines

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, leaping lines), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 join	nsubj
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 join	advmod
3	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lines	nmod:poss
5	leaping	leaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lines	compound
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 join	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 scumfish	nsubj
8	scumfish	scumfish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lines	acl:relcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 pines	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pines	det
11	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scumfish	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rocket	punct
13	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 rocket	det
14	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pines	appos
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 where	case
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 light	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 light	punct
18	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rocket	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 high	cc
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swings	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 swings	det
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 swings	amod
24	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swings	compound
25	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 light	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	_	our leaping lines			then		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
2	scumfish	present	our leaping lines			the pines			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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