The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 11

One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was going to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold.

Who acts: One, capture, Mowgli · What happens: make, tell, mark, go, show, weave · To what, where: speech, companions, new thing, history, monkeys, sticks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, capture, Mowgli), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 made	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 monkeys	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkeys	det
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 speech	det
7	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 companions	nmod:poss
11	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 marked	mark
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 capture	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Mowgli	case
15	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marked	nsubj
16	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marked	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 history	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 history	det
22	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 log	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 log	det
25	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 log	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Bandar	punct
27	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 history	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
30	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 going	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 marked	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 show	mark
34	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 show	obj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 weave	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 weave	mark
38	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 show	ccomp
39	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 weave	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 canes	cc
41	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sticks	conj
42	together	together	ADV	_	38 weave	advmod
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 protection	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 protection	det
45	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 weave	obl
46	against	against	ADP	_	47 rain	case
47	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 protection	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 cold	cc
49	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 rain	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	One	a speech			of the monkeys	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	One not said here		Mowgli's companions			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mark	past	Mowgli's capture	a new thing		the history of the Bandar log		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in history=Destination
4	go	past · progressive	Mowgli					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	monkeys = monkey				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	weave	to-infinitive		sticks and canes			as a protection against rain; together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product
7	capture		Mowgli					nom capture «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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