The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 61

When there were no people in the bungalow, did we have any mongoose in the garden?

Who acts: people, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: mongoose, garden

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, we), 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 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 have	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bungalow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bungalow	det
8	bungalow	bungalow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 mongoose	det
14	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no people in the bungalow			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past · do-support	we	any mongoose		the garden			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mongoose=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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