The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 142

“Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!”

What happens: not be · To what, where: blacker hunting

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: 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	_	4 Shere	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 Shere	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Shere	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunting	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 hunting	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hunting	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hunting	det
10	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 hunting	amod
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Shere	appos
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 hunt	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 hunt	nsubj
14	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunt	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 frog	punct
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 years	case
18	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 years	nmod:poss
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	nmod
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	20 years	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Shere	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Shere	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past		a blacker hunting				than frog hunt of thine ten years	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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