The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 25

“Tend to him if he grows restless in the night,” said Big Toomai to Little Toomai, and he went into the hut and slept.

Who acts: Kala, Big Toomai · What happens: tend, grow, say, go, sleep · To what, where: Kala, Little, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, Big 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tend	punct
2	Tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tend	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 grows	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tend	advcl
8	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grows	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tend	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tend	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Toomai	amod
16	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Little	case
18	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obl
19	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Little	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 hut	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hut	det
26	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slept	cc
28	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend in a quote	infinitive		Kala				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
2	grow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Kala			night	restless property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Big Toomai	Little				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to little=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	past	Kala		the hut			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location
5	sleep	past	Kala not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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