The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 25

He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.

Who acts: Baloo, red sandstone reservoirs · What happens: set, say, go, be · To what, where: teeth, nothing, terrace · 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 (Baloo, red sandstone reservoirs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 monkeys	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monkeys	det
13	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monkeys	compound
14	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 terrace	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 terrace	det
17	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
18	above	above	ADP	_	22 reservoirs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reservoirs	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reservoirs	amod
21	sandstone	sandstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reservoirs	compound
22	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 terrace	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 full	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 full	cop
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 full	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 half	punct
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reservoirs	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 water	compound
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	Baloo	Baloo's teeth			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tooth=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Baloo not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	go	past	Baloo not said here		a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs	with the shouting monkeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to terrace=Initial_Location
4	is	past	the red sandstone reservoirs			of rain water; full property	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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