The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 23

“Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.

Who acts: Bagheera, thou, hope · What happens: not do, warn, roar, set off, overtake · To what, where: man cub, poor Baloo, clumsy trot, monkeys · 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 (Bagheera, thou, hope), 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	_	14 roared	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 didst	advmod
3	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 roared	advcl
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 warn	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 didst	advmod
6	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 didst	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cub	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cub	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
10	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warn	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 warn	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 didst	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 roared	nsubj
14	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Baloo	case
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Baloo	amod
17	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 roared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 set	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 set	aux
21	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Baloo	acl
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 set	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 trot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 trot	det
25	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trot	amod
26	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hope	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hope	det
29	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 overtaking	mark
31	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hope	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 monkeys	det
33	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 overtaking	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	Bagheera not said here					tree rules
2	warn speech: warn in a quote	infinitive	thou	the man cub				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cub=Recipient
3	roar	past	Bagheera		poor Baloo			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baloo=Recipient
4	set off	past · perfect · passive		poor Baloo		a clumsy trot	in the hope	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	overtake	gerund	the hope not said here	the monkeys				tree rules

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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