The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 121
I can take the herd round through the jungle to the head of the ravine and then sweep down--but he would slink out at the foot.
Who acts: I, Mowgli · What happens: take, sweep down, slink out · To what, where: herd, jungle, foot
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mowgli), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herd | det |
| 5 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 jungle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jungle | det |
| 9 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ravine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ravine | det |
| 15 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sweep | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sweep | advmod |
| 18 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 sweep | advmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 slink | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 slink | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slink | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slink | aux |
| 24 | slink | slink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 slink | compound:prt |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 foot | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 foot | det |
| 28 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slink | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | I | the herd | the jungle | to the head of the ravine; round property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme to head=Destination | ||
| 2 | sweep down | infinitive | I not said here | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | slink out | would | Mowgli | the foot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory |
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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