The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 61

The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morning, and bring them back at night.

Who acts: custom · What happens: be, buffalo out, graze, bring back · To what, where: cattle

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 (custom), 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	2 custom	det
2	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 villages	case
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 villages	amod
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villages	amod
6	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 custom	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 take	cop
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 take	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boys	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boys	amod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cattle	det
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 buffaloes	cc
17	buffaloes	buffalo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 take	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 buffaloes	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 graze	mark
20	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 buffaloes	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 morning	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 morning	det
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 graze	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 bring	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 night	case
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the custom of most Indian villages			take property	tree rules
2	buffalo out	present	the custom of most Indian villages not said here				tree rules
3	graze	to-infinitive	the custom of most Indian villages not said here		morning		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring back	infinitive	the custom of most Indian villages not said here	cattle	night		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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