The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 42

They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sitting outside the circle bulged out of their heads.

Who acts: huqas, Buldeo, children, eyes, gods · What happens: tell, sit, bulge · To what, where: wonderful tales, wonderful ones, jungle, circle, heads · 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 (huqas, Buldeo, children, eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gods	case
6	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tales	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 men	cc
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gods	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ghosts	cc
10	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gods	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 wonderful	advmod
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ones	amod
18	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ways	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ways	det
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ones	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 beasts	case
23	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ways	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 jungle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jungle	det
26	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eyes	punct
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eyes	det
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bulged	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 children	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 eyes	nmod
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 children	acl
35	outside	outside	ADP	_	37 circle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 circle	det
37	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
38	bulged	bulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 heads	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 heads	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heads	nmod:poss
42	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bulged	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	huqas = huqa	wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Buldeo	wonderful ones of the ways of beasts	the jungle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
3	sit	gerund	the children not said here		the circle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside circle=Location
4	bulge	past	the eyes of the children		huqas's heads	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out head=Location
5	tell		gods and men and ghosts			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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