The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 56

When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying, “Here’s a dead mongoose.

Who acts: Tikki, small boy, dead mongoose · What happens: revive, lie, draggl, say, be · To what, where: hot sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tikki, small boy, dead mongoose), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 revived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 revived	nsubj
3	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 revived	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lying	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sun	amod
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 path	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 path	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 path	compound
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 draggled	punct
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 draggled	advmod
21	draggled	draggl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lying	conj
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 draggled	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saying	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saying	aux
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lying	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Here	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Here	punct
32	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 saying	advmod
33	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Here	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mongoose	det
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mongoose	amod
36	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Here	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	revive	past	Tikki			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	past · progressive	Tikki	the hot sun on the middle of a garden path		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
3	draggl	participle	Tikki not said here		indeed property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · progressive	a small boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	a dead mongoose		here property	tree rules

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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