The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 48

“By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do you mean to say that you aren’t taught to be bridle-wise in your business?

Who acts: Blue Gums, you · What happens: snort, mean, say, not teach, be · To what, where: troop horse, you, business · 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 (Blue Gums, you), 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	_	12 snorted	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	5 Gums	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Gums	det
4	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gums	compound
5	Gums	Gum	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 snorted	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Blocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Blocks	det
8	Back	Back	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Blocks	compound
9	Blocks	Block	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Gums	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Gums	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Gums	punct
12	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
14	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horse	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 troop	punct
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snorted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 mean	nsubj
21	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 snorted	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mean	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 taught	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 taught	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 taught	aux:pass
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 taught	advmod
28	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 say	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	33 wise	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 wise	cop
31	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wise	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 bridle	punct
33	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 taught	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 business	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 business	nmod:poss
36	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wise	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 snorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snort	past	the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks	the troop horse			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not teach speech: other in a quote	present · passive		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive			your business	wise 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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