The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 89

This gave him just one second’s purchase, and he made the most of it.

Who acts: This, tikki, one second · What happens: give, make, purchase · To what, where: purchase, tikki, most

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 (This, tikki, one second), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	just	just	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 second	nummod
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purchase	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 second	case
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 most	det
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 made	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 most	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	This	one second's purchase	tikki	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purchase=Theme
2	make	past	tikki	the most of purchase		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Product
3	purchase		one second			nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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