The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 76

Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai behind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, “There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least. ’

Who acts: Big Toomai, Machua · What happens: go up, say, go · To what, where: undertone, one piece · 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 (Big Toomai, Machua), 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	Big	big	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	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 clerk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerk	det
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 Toomai	case
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Toomai	amod
10	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 clerk	nmod
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Toomai	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
15	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
16	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Machua	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tracker	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tracker	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tracker	compound
20	tracker	tracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Machua	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Machua	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 undertone	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 undertone	det
25	undertone	undertone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 friend	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 friend	det
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 his	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friend	nmod:poss
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 goes	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 goes	punct
33	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 goes	expl
34	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 his	parataxis
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 piece	nummod
36	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 goes	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 stuff	case
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stuff	amod
39	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stuff	compound
40	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 piece	nmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 least	case
42	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 stuff	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 goes	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Big Toomai			to the clerk with Little Toomai behind clerk	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	Machua		a undertone		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in undertone=Manner
3	go in a quote	present		one piece of good elephant stuff	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=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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