The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 119

But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.

Who acts: monkeys · What happens: find, torment, throw, notice · To what, where: sick wolf, Bear, sticks, beast, hope

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 (monkeys), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 torment	cc
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 found	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 torment	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tiger	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 tiger	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tiger	det
11	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tiger	amod
12	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 bear	cc
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tiger	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monkeys	det
18	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 torment	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 torment	aux
20	torment	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 torment	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 throw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 throw	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	aux
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 torment	conj
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 throw	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nuts	cc
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sticks	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 beast	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 beast	det
31	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throw	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 fun	case
33	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throw	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hope	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hope	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hope	det
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fun	conj
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 noticed	mark
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 noticed	aux:pass
40	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 hope	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 torment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	monkeys = monkey	a sick wolf		whenever property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	torment	would	the monkeys	Bear			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	throw	would	the monkeys not said here	sticks and nuts	any beast	for fun and the hope	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at beast=Destination
4	notice	gerund · passive		the hope not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»

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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