The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 147

“Umph!” he said, for he had come across more than one such barricade in his night rambles after things to eat.

Who acts: Umph · What happens: say, come, ramble, eat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umph), 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	_	2 Umph	punct
2	Umph	Umph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Umph	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Umph	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 rambles	nsubj
12	across	across	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 come	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 barricade	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 barricade	nummod
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 barricade	amod
17	barricade	barricade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 night	nmod:poss
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 barricade	nmod
21	rambles	ramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 things	case
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rambles	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 things	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Umph			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	Umph		than one such barricade in Umph's night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ramble	present		after things		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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