The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 130

Aren’t these camels too sickening for anything?

Who acts: camels · What happens: not sicken

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camels), 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sickening	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sickening	advmod
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 camels	det
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sickening	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 sickening	advmod
6	sickening	sicken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sickening	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sickening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sicken	present · progressive	this camels					for anything	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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