The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 74

Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.

Who acts: Bagheera, Shere · What happens: have, know, tell, kill · To what, where: eyes, something, Mowgli, many words · 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 (Bagheera, Shere), 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	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ears	cc
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eyes	conj
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 knew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 something	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 told	advmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 twice	cc
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 once	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
21	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 words	case
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 words	amod
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 kill	obj
27	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 kill	nsubj
28	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Shere	flat
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	aux
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 words	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	obj
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kill	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Bagheera	eyes and ears				everywhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	know	past		something					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	Bagheera		Mowgli	many words		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient
4	kill	would	Shere	many words			day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer he=Result

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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