The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 137

“Yes,” said Big Toomai, his driver, the son of Black Toomai who had taken him to Abyssinia, and grandson of Toomai of the Elephants who had seen him caught, “there is nothing that the Black Snake fears except me.

Who acts: Big, driver, grandson, nothing, Black Snake · What happens: say, take, see, catch, be, fear · To what, where: Big, Abyssinia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big, driver, grandson, nothing), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Big	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 driver	nmod:poss
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driver	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Toomai	case
15	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Toomai	compound
16	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 taken	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taken	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Abyssinia	case
22	Abyssinia	Abyssinia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 taken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grandson	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grandson	cc
25	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Toomai	case
27	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 grandson	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Elephants	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Elephants	det
30	Elephants	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 seen	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seen	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 grandson	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	obj
35	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 is	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 is	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 is	expl
39	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	ccomp
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 is	nsubj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 fears	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Snake	det
43	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Snake	amod
44	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 fears	nsubj
45	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 nothing	advcl
46	except	except	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 fears	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Big					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past · perfect	Big's driver and the son of Black Toomai	Big	Abyssinia			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to abyssinia=Destination
3	see	past · perfect	grandson of Toomai	Big			of the Elephants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	catch	past	grandson of Toomai					tree rules
5	be in a quote	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fear in a quote	present	the Black Snake				except the soldiers = soldier	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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