The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 2

So, as soon as Messua pronounced a word Mowgli would imitate it almost perfectly, and before dark he had learned the names of many things in the hut.

Who acts: Messua · What happens: pronounce, imitate, learn, name · To what, where: word, names, many things

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 (Messua), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 imitate	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 imitate	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 pronounced	mark
6	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pronounced	nsubj
7	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soon	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pronounced	obj
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 imitate	aux
12	imitate	imitate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 imitate	obj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 perfectly	advmod
15	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	12 imitate	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 learned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 learned	cc
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 dark	case
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 learned	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 learned	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 learned	aux
22	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 imitate	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 names	det
24	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learned	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 things	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 names	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hut	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hut	det
30	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 things	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 imitate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pronounce	past	Messua	a word			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	imitate	would		word		perfectly, soon property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	learn	past · perfect	Messua	the names of many things in the hut	before dark		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
4	name			many things in the hut			nom name «communication 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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