The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 17

It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.

Who acts: luck, wolves, Tabaqui · What happens: be, despise, run, make, tell, eat · To what, where: jackal, Tabaqui, mischief, tales, rags, village rubbish heaps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, wolves, Tabaqui), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jackal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jackal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 Tabaqui	punct
6	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jackal	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 licker	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 licker	det
9	Dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 licker	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Dish	punct
11	licker	licker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tabaqui	appos
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 despise	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 despise	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolves	det
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 despise	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 India	case
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wolves	nmod
18	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jackal	parataxis
19	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 despise	obj
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 runs	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 runs	nsubj
22	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 despise	advcl
23	about	about	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 runs	advcl
25	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 telling	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 telling	cc
28	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 despise	parataxis
29	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 telling	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eating	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eating	cc
32	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 telling	conj
33	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eating	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pieces	cc
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rags	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 leather	case
37	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pieces	nmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	43 heaps	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 heaps	det
40	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heaps	compound
41	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heaps	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 rubbish	punct
43	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eating	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jackal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	luck	the jackal		tree rules
2	despise	present	the wolves of India	Tabaqui		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tabaqui=Stimulus
3	run	present	Tabaqui			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund	Tabaqui not said here	mischief		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mischief=Product
5	tell speech: assert	gerund		tales		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
6	eat	gerund		rags and pieces of leather	the village rubbish heaps	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Patient

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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