The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 164

Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, asking questions of a native officer.

Who acts: I, old grizzled haired Central Asian chief · What happens: hear, come down, ask · To what, where: old grizzled haired Central Asian chief, questions

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, old grizzled haired Central Asian chief), 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:pg236:2422): 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chief	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chief	amod
6	grizzled	grizzled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chief	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 haired	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 haired	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chief	amod
11	Central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chief	amod
12	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chief	amod
13	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 chief	acl:relcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 Amir	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Amir	det
21	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asking	punct
23	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	xcomp
24	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 asking	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 officer	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 officer	det
27	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 officer	amod
28	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief	then		tree rules
2	come down	past · perfect	a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief			with the Amir; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	a old grizzled haired Central Asian chief not said here	questions		of a native officer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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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