The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 91

“Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,--melons,” said Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of laughter.

Who acts: green corn, men, laughter · What happens: say, sit about, break, roar · To what, where: roar · 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 (green corn, men, laughter), 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	_	4 corn	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 green	advmod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corn	amod
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Protector	punct
6	Protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corn	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Poor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Poor	det
9	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Protector	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melons	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 melons	punct
12	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 corn	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 corn	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 corn	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Toomai	amod
17	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sitting	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 men	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sitting	nsubj
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 broke	advmod
25	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	ccomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 roar	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 roar	det
28	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 broke	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 laughter	case
30	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roar	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	green corn and melons		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sit about	gerund	all men		tree rules
3	break	past	all men not said here	into a roar of laughter result; about property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into roar=Result
4	roar		laughter		nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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