--- title: He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and take… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/128/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/) / 128 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 128 He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal. **Who acts:** Emperor Theodore, soldiers · **What happens:** hoist, take, make, carry, see, lie · **To what, where:** Kala, ship, water, mortar, back, Emperor Theodore · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor Theodore, soldiers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:15:128 # text = He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 hoisted hoist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 across across ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Theodore Theodore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 50 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 xcomp _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Magdala Magdala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 57 back back ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 58 again again ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 steamer steamer NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 62 entitled entitle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 64 so so ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 nsubj _ _ 67 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 69 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 71 Abyssinian Abyssinian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 compound _ _ 73 medal medal NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hoist** | past · perfect · passive | | Kala | | a ship | at the end of a steam crane | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into ship=Destination at end=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take** | participle | | | | the water | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | | a mortar | | Kala's back | | in a strange country; far *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mortar=Value in country=Location | | 5 | **see** | past · perfect | | the Emperor Theodore | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **lie** | gerund | the Emperor Theodore *not said here* | | | Magdala | | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in magdala=Location | | 7 | **come back** | past · perfect | | | | | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **entitle** | past | | | | the steamer | | | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldiers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/127/) - next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/129/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/)