The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 123

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

Who acts: Puffins, Chickies, Limmershin, you · What happens: look, be, take up, tell, not hear, fire · To what, where: cry, me, gun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Puffins, Chickies, Limmershin, you), 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	Naturally	naturally	ADV	_	3 Chickies	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chickies	det
3	Chickies	Chickie	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 took	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Gooverooskies	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gooverooskies	det
6	Gooverooskies	Gooveroosky	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Chickies	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Epatkas	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Epatkas	det
9	Epatkas	Epatkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Chickies	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 Gulls	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gulls	det
12	Burgomaster	Burgomaster	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gulls	compound
13	Gulls	Gull	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Chickies	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Kittiwakes	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Kittiwakes	det
16	Kittiwakes	kittiwake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Gulls	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Puffins	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Puffins	det
19	Puffins	Puffin	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Gulls	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 looking	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 looking	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 looking	advmod
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 Puffins	acl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 chance	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chance	det
27	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	30 rude	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 rude	cop
30	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chance	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Chickies	punct
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 took	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cry	det
35	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 told	cc
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 told	advmod
40	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 told	nsubj
41	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 told	iobj
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 minutes	punct
44	for	for	ADP	_	47 minutes	case
45	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	46 five	advmod
46	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 minutes	nummod
47	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 heard	obl:unmarked
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 heard	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 heard	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 heard	advmod
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 heard	aux
52	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 told	ccomp
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 gun	det
54	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 heard	obj
55	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 gun	acl
56	on	on	ADP	_	57 Walrus	case
57	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 fired	obl:agent
58	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Walrus	flat
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	the Puffins				for a chance; always property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for chance=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the Puffins not said here				rude property	tree rules
3	take up	past	the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas and the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins	the cry				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Limmershin		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not hear	could · perfect	you	a gun		minute		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus
6	fire	participle		a gun not said here				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

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