The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 110

“Beyond doubt then it is no small thing that takes two such hunters--leaders in their own jungle I am certain--on the trail of the Bandar-log,” Kaa replied courteously, as he swelled with curiosity.

Who acts: log, small thing, Kaa · What happens: be, take, reply, swell · To what, where: small thing, two such hunters, own jungle, trail · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (log, small thing, Kaa), 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 thing	punct
2	Beyond	beyond	ADP	_	3 doubt	case
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	obl
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 thing	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 thing	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	acl:relcl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hunters	nummod
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hunters	amod
14	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 takes	obj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 leaders	punct
16	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hunters	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 jungle	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 jungle	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jungle	amod
20	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 certain	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 certain	cop
23	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 takes	conj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 trail	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 trail	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trail	det
27	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 certain	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 log	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 log	det
30	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 log	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Bandar	punct
32	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trail	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
35	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 replied	nsubj
36	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 takes	parataxis
37	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	36 replied	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 swelled	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 swelled	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 swelled	nsubj
41	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 replied	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 curiosity	case
43	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swelled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	log	no small thing		then	beyond doubt	tree rules
2	take in a quote	present	no small thing	two such hunters and leaders	leaders's own jungle			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Kaa		the trail of the Bandar log		certain property	tree rules
4	reply speech: assert	past	Kaa				courteously property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	swell	past	Kaa				with curiosity	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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