The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 1

“Yes,” said Little Toomai, “he is afraid of me,” and he took long strides up to Kala Nag, called him a fat old pig, and made him lift up his feet one after the other.

Who acts: Little, he, Kala · What happens: say, be, take, stride up, call, make · To what, where: Kala, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, he, Kala), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	nsubj
7	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 strides	amod
21	strides	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 took	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 strides	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Kala	case
24	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 strides	obl
25	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Kala	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pig	det
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pig	amod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pig	amod
32	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 made	obj
37	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 made	xcomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 lift	compound:prt
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feet	nmod:poss
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lift	obj
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 lift	obl:unmarked
42	after	after	ADP	_	44 other	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 other	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	he			of Little; afraid property	tree rules
3	take	past	he				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stride up	present			Kala		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to kala=Destination
5	call	past	he not said here		Kala		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	make	past	Little not said here	Kala			tree rules
7	lift up	infinitive	Kala not said here	Kala's feet		one after the other obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme

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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