The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 71

Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Little Things, O little son of mine!

What happens: be · To what, where: Tall camels, heavy kine

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: 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	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 camels	amod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 camels	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 camels	det
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kine	punct
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kine	amod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kine	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kine	det
9	kine	kine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 camels	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Things	punct
11	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 Things	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Things	det
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Things	cop
14	Least	Least	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Things	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Things	case
16	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Things	amod
17	Things	Thing	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 camels	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
19	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	21 son	case
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 son	amod
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Things	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 mine	case
23	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Things	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Tall camels and the heavy kine		tree rules
2	is a	present	the heavy kine		tree rules
3	is	past		of this Least Little Things	tree rules

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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