The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 101

Now he is telling all his wisdom to the kites, but he told me everything before I broke his back.

Who acts: Tabaqui, I · What happens: tell, break · To what, where: wisdom, kites, everything, me, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tabaqui, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 telling	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wisdom	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wisdom	nmod:poss
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 kites	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kites	det
10	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 told	obj
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 broke	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Tabaqui	Tabaqui's wisdom	the kites	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic to kite=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Tabaqui	everything	me		tree rules
3	break	past	I	Tabaqui's back			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=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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