The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 67

He beat the buffaloes with a long, polished bamboo, and told Kamya, one of the boys, to graze the cattle by themselves, while he went on with the buffaloes, and to be very careful not to stray away from the herd.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: beat, polish, tell, graze, go on, be · To what, where: buffaloes, Kamya, cattle, herd · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buffaloes	det
4	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 bamboo	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bamboo	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bamboo	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bamboo	amod
10	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	parataxis
14	Kamya	Kamya	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Kamya	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 boys	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boys	det
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 graze	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 graze	mark
22	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cattle	det
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 graze	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 themselves	case
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 graze	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 went	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 buffaloes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 buffaloes	det
34	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 went	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 careful	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 careful	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	40 careful	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 careful	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 careful	advmod
40	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beat	parataxis
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 stray	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 stray	mark
43	stray	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 careful	advcl
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 stray	advmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 herd	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 herd	det
47	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stray	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Mowgli	the buffaloes			with a long polished bamboo	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent buffalo=Patient with bamboo=Instrument
2	polish	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past			Kamya			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kamya=Recipient
4	graze	to-infinitive		the cattle			by buffaloes = buffalo	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cattle=Experiencer by themselves=Theme
5	go on	past	Mowgli				with the buffaloes	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive					careful property	tree rules
7	not stray away	to-infinitive				the herd	away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from herd=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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