The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 119
I never knew before what made Indian cattle so scared of Englishmen.
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, make · To what, where: Indian cattle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:2381): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 knew | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cattle | amod |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 scared | advmod |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Englishmen | case |
| 12 | Englishmen | englishman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | I | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Indian cattle | scared property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cattle=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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