The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 88

“That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.

Who acts: Tabaqui · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: foolishness, thee · 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 (Tabaqui), 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	_	18 told	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 foolishness	det
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 foolishness	cop
4	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 maker	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	13 maker	case
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 maker	mark
8	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maker	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 maker	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 maker	det
11	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maker	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 mischief	punct
13	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foolishness	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foolishness	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 told	iobj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 something	case
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 told	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 concerned	nsubj
23	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 something	amod
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 concerned	nsubj
25	closely	closely	ADV	_	18 told	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		that foolishness			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Tabaqui			for a mischief maker	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	would · perfect · passive		that foolishness	thee	of something; closely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Topic

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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