The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 60

They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked.

Who acts: mongoose, big man, Tikki · What happens: take, pick up, say, not be, choke · To what, where: Tikki, house · 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 (mongoose, big man, Tikki), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 picked	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picked	nsubj
12	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 picked	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 picked	compound:prt
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 finger	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 finger	nmod:poss
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picked	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thumb	cc
19	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finger	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 picked	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dead	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dead	advmod
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 choked	cc
27	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 choked	advmod
28	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dead	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	mongoose	Tikki	the house		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into house=Destination
2	pick up	past	a big man	Tikki		between Tikki's finger and thumb	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	a big man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	Tikki			dead property	tree rules
5	choke	participle	Tikki not said here			half property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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