The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 126

This time, they said, they were really going to have a leader and become the wisest people in the jungle--so wise that everyone else would notice and envy them.

Who acts: People, everyone · What happens: say, go, have, become, notice, envy · To what, where: leader, wisest people, People · Speech: someone speaks here

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, everyone), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 leader	det
14	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 become	cc
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 become	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 jungle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jungle	det
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 people	nmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 wise	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 wise	advmod
25	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 notice	mark
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 notice	nsubj
28	else	else	ADV	_	27 everyone	advmod
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 notice	aux
30	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wise	csubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 envy	cc
32	envy	envy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 notice	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 envy	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	People		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	People			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	to-infinitive	People not said here	a leader		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient
4	become	infinitive	People not said here	the wisest people in the jungle		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	notice	would	everyone			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	envy	infinitive	everyone not said here	People		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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