The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 67

Little Toomai went off without saying a word, but he told Kala Nag all his grievances while he was examining his feet.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai · What happens: go off, say, tell, examine · To what, where: word, grievances, 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 Toomai, Toomai), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 saying	mark
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
14	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Kala	flat
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 grievances	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grievances	nmod:poss
17	grievances	grievance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	iobj
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 examining	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 examining	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 examining	aux
21	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 told	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 examining	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go off	past	Little Toomai			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Little Toomai not said here	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	Toomai		Toomai's grievances	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kala=Recipient grievance=Topic
4	examine	past · progressive	Toomai	Toomai's feet		vn assessment-34.1 «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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