The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 143

The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center.

Who acts: Vixen · What happens: hold, have · To what, where: big parade, good place

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 (Vixen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parade	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parade	amod
3	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 men	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thousand	compound
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 men	nummod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 parade	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	aux:pass
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
16	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 I	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Vixen	conj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 Viceroy	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Viceroy	det
26	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Amir	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Amir	det
29	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Viceroy	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Afghanistan	case
31	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Amir	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hat	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	38 hat	case
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hat	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 high	punct
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hat	amod
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hat	amod
38	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 wool	case
40	astrakhan	astrakhan	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wool	compound
41	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hat	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 star	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 star	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 star	amod
45	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 star	compound
46	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wool	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 center	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 center	det
49	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 star	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive		the big parade of all thousand men			afternoon		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	past	Vixen	a good place				with high big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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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