The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 85

Why have I never been taken among the Monkey People?

Who acts: Monkey People · What happens: not take · To what, where: I

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 (Monkey People), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 taken	advmod
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 taken	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 taken	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 People	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 People	det
9	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 People	compound
10	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 taken	obl:agent
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	present · perfect · passive	the Monkey People	I					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination

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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