The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 124

“That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly,” said Bagheera quickly.

Who acts: That, Bagheera · What happens: need, feed, praise, say · To what, where: we · 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 (That, Bagheera), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 fed	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fed	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fed	aux:pass
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 fed	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 fed	advmod
12	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 need	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 praise	mark
14	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fed	xcomp
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	14 praise	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	That		night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	feed in a quote	present · passive		we		all, well property	tree rules
3	praise in a quote	to-infinitive				properly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Bagheera			quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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