The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 114
Petersen Sahib had noticed him, and given him money, so he felt as a private soldier would feel if he had been called out of the ranks and praised by his commander-in-chief.
Who acts: Petersen, Kala, private soldier · What happens: notice, give, feel, call out, praise · To what, where: Kala, money, ranks
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 (Petersen, Kala, private soldier), 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 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Petersen | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 given | cc |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 noticed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | iobj |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 felt | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 feel | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 17 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soldier | amod |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 feel | aux |
| 20 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 felt | ccomp |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 called | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 feel | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 ranks | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ranks | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ranks | det |
| 29 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 called | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 praised | cc |
| 31 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 called | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 chief | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 chief | nmod:poss |
| 34 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chief | nsubj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 chief | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 chief | case |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 in | punct |
| 38 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 praised | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · perfect | Petersen | Kala | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | Petersen not said here | money | Kala | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Kala | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | would | a private soldier | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Kala | the ranks | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme rank=Result | ||||
| 6 | praise | participle | by Kala's chief | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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