The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 38

When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua’s husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed.

Who acts: priest, Mowgli, husband, village head man, man, buffaloes · What happens: scold, threaten, put, tell, have, be · To what, where: Mowgli, husband, buffaloes · 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 (priest, Mowgli, husband, village head man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 scolded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	nsubj
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 threatened	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scolded	punct
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 threatened	nsubj
8	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 put	mark
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 threatened	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 donkey	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 donkey	det
14	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
15	too	too	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 priest	det
19	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 threatened	conj
21	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 husband	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Messua	case
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 had	obj
25	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 husband	acl:relcl
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 set	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 set	cop
29	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 work	mark
31	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 set	advcl
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 work	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 possible	mark
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soon	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 told	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 told	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
39	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	compound
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 head	punct
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	nsubj
43	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 threatened	conj
44	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 told	iobj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 told	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 go	mark
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 have	xcomp
51	out	out	ADV	_	50 go	advmod
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 buffaloes	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 buffaloes	det
54	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 go	obl
55	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 day	amod
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	obl:unmarked
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 herd	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 herd	cc
59	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 have	conj
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 herd	obj
61	while	while	SCONJ	_	63 grazed	mark
62	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 grazed	nsubj
63	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 herd	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	the priest	Mowgli				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	threaten	past	Mowgli					tree rules
3	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	Mowgli			on the donkey	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on donkey=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	past	the priest		Messua's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
5	have	past	Mowgli	Messua's husband				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
6	is	infinitive	Messua's husband not said here				set property	tree rules
7	work	to-infinitive	Messua's husband not said here				soon property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	past	the village head man		Mowgli			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient clause=Topic
9	have	would	man					tree rules
10	go out	to-infinitive	man not said here			day	with the buffaloes; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with buffalo=Co-Agent
11	herd	infinitive	man not said here	buffaloes = buffalo				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
12	graze	past	buffaloes = buffalo					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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