The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 104

“Something of that kind it was that they shouted to us last moon, but we never noticed them.

Who acts: kind, we · What happens: be, not notice · To what, where: us, Baloo

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, we), 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 Something	punct
2	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kind	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Something	nmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shouted	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 shouted	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	nsubj
10	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Something	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	obl
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 moon	amod
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 noticed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 noticed	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 noticed	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 noticed	advmod
19	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shouted	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 noticed	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	kind		us			last moon obl; shout property	tree rules
2	not notice in a quote	past	we	Baloo					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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