The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 85

“Mowgli,” said Bagheera angrily, “his nose was sore on thy account, as my ears and sides and paws, and Baloo’s neck and shoulders are bitten on thy account.

Who acts: Mowgli, nose, thy · What happens: say, be, bite, account · To what, where: account, neck · 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 (Mowgli, nose, thy), 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 Mowgli	punct
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mowgli	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mowgli	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sore	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 sore	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sore	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sore	cop
13	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 account	case
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 account	nmod:poss
16	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sore	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ears	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 ears	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sore	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sides	cc
22	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ears	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 paws	cc
24	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ears	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bitten	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bitten	cc
27	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 neck	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Baloo	case
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bitten	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shoulders	cc
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 neck	conj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bitten	aux:pass
33	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 account	case
35	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 account	nmod:poss
36	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bitten	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli			angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	Mowgli's nose		thy account	sore property	tree rules
3	bite in a quote	present · passive		Baloo's neck and shoulders	thy account		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient on account=Location
4	account in a quote		thy				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	account in a quote		thy				nom account «communication 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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