The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 84

“Now,” he said, when he awoke, “I will go back to the house.

Who acts: tikki, widow · What happens: say, awake, go back · 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 (tikki, widow), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 awoke	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 awoke	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awoke	nsubj
10	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 awoke	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tikki	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	awake	past	tikki			tree rules
3	go back in a quote	future	widow		to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result

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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