The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 100

They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten.

Who acts: People, falling · What happens: boast, chatter, pretend, be, do, turn · To what, where: great people, great affairs, jungle, minds, laughter, all

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, falling), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boast	nsubj
2	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 chatter	cc
4	chatter	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boast	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pretend	cc
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boast	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 people	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 people	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 people	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 people	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pretend	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 do	case
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 people	acl:relcl
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 affairs	amod
17	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 jungle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jungle	det
20	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 affairs	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turns	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 turns	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 falling	det
24	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turns	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 nut	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nut	det
27	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 falling	nmod
28	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boast	parataxis
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 minds	nmod:poss
30	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 turns	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 laughter	case
32	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turns	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 forgotten	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 forgotten	nsubj:pass
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 forgotten	aux:pass
36	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 turns	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	boast speech: other	present	People			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chatter	present	People not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	present	People not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	People	a great people		tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	People not said here	great affairs	the jungle	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality
6	turn	present	the falling of a nut	People's minds	laughter	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mind=Theme to laughter=Trajectory
7	forget	present · passive		all		tree rules
8	mind		People			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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