The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 58

“Except his own tribe,” said Bagheera, under his breath; and then aloud to Mowgli, “Have a care for my ribs, Little Brother!

Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: except, say, have · To what, where: own tribe, care, Mowgli · 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 (Bagheera), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Except	punct
2	Except	except	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tribe	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tribe	amod
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Except	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Except	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Except	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 breath	punct
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 breath	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 breath	nmod:poss
13	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 aloud	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 aloud	advmod
17	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	22 Have	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Mowgli	case
19	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Have	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Have	punct
22	Have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 care	det
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Have	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 ribs	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ribs	nmod:poss
27	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 care	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Brother	punct
29	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Brother	amod
30	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Have	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	except in a quote	infinitive		Baloo's own tribe			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Bagheera				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	infinitive		a care	Mowgli	for my ribs; Little Brother obl; aloud property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=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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