The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 80

“And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they--they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.”

Who acts: cubs · What happens: give, eat, carry, say, be, have · To what, where: nuts, cubs, arms, blood brother, tail, leader · 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 (cubs), 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	_	9 gave	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gave	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gave	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 things	cc
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nuts	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 things	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	nsubj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 they	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 arms	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arms	nmod:poss
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	obl
27	up	up	ADV	_	30 top	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 top	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	conj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 brother	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 brother	cop
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 brother	nmod:poss
39	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brother	compound
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	ccomp
41	except	except	ADP	_	42 that	case
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 brother	nmod
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 brother	acl:relcl
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 tail	det
46	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 leader	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 leader	cc
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 leader	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 leader	cop
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 leader	nmod:poss
52	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 day	det
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 leader	obl:unmarked
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	cubs = cub	nuts and pleasant things	cubs = cub		then; then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nut=Theme
2	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	cubs = cub not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry in a quote	past	cubs = cub	cubs = cub		cubs's arms		to the top of the trees	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to top=Destination
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	cubs = cub not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	cubs = cub	cubs's blood brother				except that	tree rules
6	have in a quote	past	cubs = cub	no tail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
7	is a in a quote	should		cubs's leader			day		tree rules

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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