The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 30

First he had to wear a cloth round him, which annoyed him horribly; and then he had to learn about money, which he did not in the least understand, and about plowing, of which he did not see the use.

Who acts: Mowgli, money · What happens: have, wear, learn, not understand, plow, not see · To what, where: cloth, money, use

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 (Mowgli, money), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloth	det
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wear	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 annoyed	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 annoyed	nsubj
12	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wear	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 annoyed	nsubj
14	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	12 annoyed	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 had	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 learn	mark
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 money	case
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learn	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 understand	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 understand	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 understand	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 understand	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 understand	advmod
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 understand	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 least	det
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 understand	nsubj
32	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 money	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 plowing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 plowing	cc
35	about	about	SCONJ	_	36 plowing	mark
36	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 see	punct
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 see	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 see	nsubj
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 see	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 see	advmod
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 plowing	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 use	det
45	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 see	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mowgli			first property	tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	a cloth		round Mowgli	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Source
3	have	past	Mowgli		then		tree rules
4	learn	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	money			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic
5	not understand	past · do-support	money				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	plow	gerund	Mowgli not said here				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	not see	past · do-support	Mowgli	the use			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer use=Stimulus

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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