The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 45

Aihai! my lords in the chains,”--he whirled up the line of pickets--“here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places,--the sight that never man saw!

Who acts: lord, chains, little one, man, your · What happens: whirl up, be, see, dance · To what, where: line, little one, dances, hidden places, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lord, chains, little one, man), 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	Aihai	Aihai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lords	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Aihai	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lords	nmod:poss
4	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chains	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chains	det
7	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chains	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 chains	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 whirled	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whirled	nsubj
12	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chains	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 whirled	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 line	det
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whirled	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 pickets	case
17	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 line	nmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 whirled	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seen	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 one	acl:relcl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dances	nmod:poss
29	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 places	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 places	nmod:poss
32	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 places	amod
33	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sight	punct
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 sight	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sight	det
37	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	appos
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 saw	obj
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 man	advmod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	nsubj
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sight	acl:relcl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	whirl up in a quote	past	lord	the line of pickets		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme
2	is a	present	the chains	the little one		tree rules
3	see	present · perfect	the little one	your dances	your hidden places	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
4	see	past	man	the sight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	dance		your			nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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