The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 62

The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.

Who acts: cattle, children · What happens: trample, allow, bang, bully, shout, come up · To what, where: white man, cattle, noses

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 (cattle, children), 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 cattle	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 cattle	advmod
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allow	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 trample	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trample	aux
6	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cattle	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trample	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trample	obl
12	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 allow	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 banged	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 banged	aux:pass
16	banged	bang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 allow	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bullied	cc
18	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 banged	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shouted	cc
20	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 banged	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	20 shouted	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 children	case
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shouted	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 come	nsubj
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 children	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 come	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 noses	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 noses	nmod:poss
30	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trample	would	the cattle	a white man		to death	tree rules
2	allow	present	the cattle	cattle			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
3	bang	to-infinitive · passive	the cattle not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
4	bully	participle	the cattle not said here				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
5	shout speech: express	participle	the cattle not said here			by children	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come up	present	children		cattle's noses	hardly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nose=Initial_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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