The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 84

But he was a restless companion, because he had to get up and attend to every noise all through the night, and find out what made it.

Who acts: Tikki · What happens: be, have, get up, attend, find out, make · To what, where: restless companion, noise · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 companion	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 companion	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 companion	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 companion	det
5	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 companion	amod
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 companion	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 attend	cc
15	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 noise	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attend	obl
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 night	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attend	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 find	cc
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 find	compound:prt
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 find	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 companion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tikki	a restless companion			tree rules
2	have	past	Tikki				tree rules
3	get up	to-infinitive	Tikki not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	attend	infinitive	Tikki not said here		night	to every noise	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to noise=Theme
5	find out	infinitive	Tikki not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	past		noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

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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