The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 38

“Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people,” he said to himself, “and now they have madness.

Who acts: Tabaqui, People · What happens: bite, say, have · To what, where: Tabaqui, madness · 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 (Tabaqui, People), 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	_	7 bitten	punct
2	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bitten	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jackal	det
4	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tabaqui	appos
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bitten	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bitten	aux
7	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 people	det:predet
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bitten	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bitten	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 bitten	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 have	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
23	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bite in a quote	must · perfect · passive		Tabaqui			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient people=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Tabaqui		Tabaqui		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	People	madness		now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=Patient

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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