The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 132
Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow buffaloes by themselves.”
Who acts: you · What happens: keep · To what, where: cows
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 (you), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cows | det |
| 3 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 calves | cc |
| 5 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cows | conj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bulls | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bulls | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bulls | det |
| 10 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buffaloes | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 buffaloes | det |
| 13 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buffaloes | compound |
| 14 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bulls | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 themselves | case |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Keep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the cows and calves | by buffaloes = buffalo; the bulls and the plow buffaloes obl; together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme by themselves=Location |
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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