The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 51

They hold some sort of council there over the boy.”

Who acts: terraces · What happens: hold, sort · To what, where: sort, council

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 (terraces), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 council	case
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 hold	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	terraces = terrace	some sort of council		there		over the boy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sort=Theme over boy=Location
2	sort			council					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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