The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 76

They gave him a little piece of raw meat.

Who acts: mongoose · What happens: give · To what, where: little piece, Teddy

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), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 meat	case
8	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meat	amod
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	mongoose	a little piece of raw meat	Teddy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme

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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