The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 41

The monkeys sat and talked in the upper branches, and there was a hole under the platform where a cobra lived, and he had his little platter of milk every night because he was sacred; and the old men sat around the tree and talked, and pulled at the big huqas (the water-pipes) till far into the night.

Who acts: monkeys, hole, cobra, old men, big huqas · What happens: sit, talk, be, live, have, pull · To what, where: upper branches, little platter, tree

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 (monkeys, hole, cobra, old men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branches	det
8	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branches	amod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hole	det
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 platform	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 platform	det
18	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hole	nmod
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lived	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cobra	det
21	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 platform	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 platter	nmod:poss
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 platter	amod
29	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 milk	case
31	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 platter	nmod
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl:unmarked
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 sacred	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sacred	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sacred	cop
37	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sat	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 men	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sat	nsubj
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
44	around	around	ADP	_	46 tree	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sat	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 talked	cc
48	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sat	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 pulled	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 pulled	cc
51	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	parataxis
52	at	at	ADP	_	55 huqas	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 huqas	det
54	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 huqas	amod
55	huqas	huqa	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 till	nsubj
56	(	(	PUNCT	_	60 pipes	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 pipes	det
58	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 pipes	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 water	punct
60	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 huqas	appos
61	)	)	PUNCT	_	60 pipes	punct
62	till	till	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 pulled	parataxis
63	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 till	advmod
64	into	into	ADP	_	66 night	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 night	det
66	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 till	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the monkeys					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	the monkeys not said here		the upper branches			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	a hole under the platform		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	past	a cobra					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	cobra	cobra's little platter of milk		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platter=Patient
6	is	past	hole				sacred property	tree rules
7	sit	past	the old men		the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around tree=Location
8	talk	past	the old men not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	pull	participle						vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	till	present	the big huqas			night	far property	tree rules

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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