The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 96

They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches.

Who acts: People · What happens: have, use, steal, overhear, listen, wait up · To what, where: speech, stolen words, branches

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 speech	det
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speech	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 words	det
12	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 overhear	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 overhear	nsubj
16	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 words	acl:relcl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 listen	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listen	nsubj
19	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 overhear	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peep	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 peep	cc
22	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overhear	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wait	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wait	cc
25	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 wait	compound:prt
27	above	above	ADV	_	25 wait	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 branches	det
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wait	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	People	no speech of People's own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient
2	use	present	People not said here	the stolen words			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	overhear	present	People	the stolen words			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	listen	present	People				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	wait up	infinitive	People not said here		the branches	above property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location

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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