The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 139

“Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,” said Mowgli, and he bounded away.

Who acts: Bull, Mowgli, tale · What happens: buy, pay, be, say, bound away · To what, where: Mowgli, Shere, little over · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, Mowgli, tale), 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	_	13 pay	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 pay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Bull	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bull	det
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bought	nsubj
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Bull	acl:relcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bought	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Bull	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pay	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	aux
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
14	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obj
15	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Shere	flat
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tale	amod
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Shere	appos
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 this	case
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 tale	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 over	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 over	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 over	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 over	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 over	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 over	amod
27	over	over	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pay	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 pay	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bounded	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bounded	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bounded	nsubj
35	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	conj
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 bounded	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	past	the Bull		Mowgli			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	pay in a quote	future	Mowgli	Shere		then	by the Bull	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shere=Asset
3	is a in a quote	may	tale	a little over				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bound away	past	Mowgli				away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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