The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 84

“They were very kind and bade me come again.

Who acts: cubs · What happens: be, bade, come · To what, where: Bagheera

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	_	5 kind	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bade	cc
7	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 bade	obj
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bade	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	cubs = cub			kind property	tree rules
2	bade in a quote	past	cubs = cub not said here	Bagheera			tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	cubs = cub not said here		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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