The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 88

“True, but he has cost us heavily in time which might have been spent in good hunting, in wounds, in hair--I am half plucked along my back--and last of all, in honor.

Who acts: Baloo · What happens: cost, spend, pluck · To what, where: us, wounds, time, good hunting, Baloo

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 (Baloo), 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 True	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cost	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 cost	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cost	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cost	aux
7	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 True	parataxis
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cost	iobj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	7 cost	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cost	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spent	nsubj:pass
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 spent	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 spent	aux:pass
16	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 time	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hunting	case
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hunting	amod
19	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wounds	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 wounds	case
22	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cost	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hair	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 hair	case
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wounds	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 plucked	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 plucked	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 plucked	aux:pass
29	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 plucked	advmod
30	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wounds	acl
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plucked	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 last	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 last	cc
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 True	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 last	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 honor	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 honor	case
41	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 True	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost in a quote	present · perfect	Baloo		us	wounds and hair	time	heavily property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme we=Value
2	spend in a quote	might · perfect · passive		time		good hunting			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	pluck in a quote	present · passive		Baloo				along my back; half property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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