The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 57

So I sit at my ease, as befits a mahout,--not a mere hunter,--a mahout, I say, and a man who gets a pension at the end of his service.

Who acts: I, man, Kala · What happens: sit, befit, say, get, service · To what, where: man, ease, mahout, pension, end · 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 (I, man, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ease	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ease	nmod:poss
6	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 befits	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 befits	mark
9	befits	befit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mahout	det
11	mahout	mahout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befits	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunter	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 hunter	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hunter	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hunter	det
16	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hunter	amod
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befits	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mahout	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 mahout	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mahout	det
21	mahout	mahout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunter	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 man	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 gets	nsubj
30	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 man	acl:relcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pension	det
32	pension	pension	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gets	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 end	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gets	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 service	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 service	nmod:poss
38	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	present	I	a man	my ease		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
2	befit	present	I not said here	a mahout			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	a man	a pension		at the end of Kala's service	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent pension=Theme at end=Asset
5	service		Kala				nom service «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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