The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 115

There was a long silence, and then one of the gun bullocks lifted up his big head and said, “This is very foolish indeed.

Who acts: long silence, one, This · What happens: be, lift up, say · To what, where: big head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long silence, one, This), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 silence	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silence	amod
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lifted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lifted	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lifted	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 bullocks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bullocks	det
12	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bullocks	compound
13	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 lifted	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 head	amod
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lifted	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 foolish	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 foolish	punct
23	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 foolish	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 foolish	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 foolish	advmod
26	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 foolish	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a long silence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lift up	past	one of the gun bullocks	silence's big head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	one of the gun bullocks not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	This			foolish, indeed property	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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