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The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 46

Buldeo was explaining how the tiger that had carried away Messua’s son was a ghost-tiger, and his body was inhabited by the ghost of a wicked, old money-lender, who had died some years ago.

Who acts: Buldeo, explaining, ghost, wicked old money lender · What happens: explain, carry away, be, inhabit, die, ghost · To what, where: tiger, ghost tiger, body, wicked old money lender

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 (Buldeo, explaining, ghost, wicked old money lender), 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

nsubjauxcsubjadvmoddetnsubj:passnsubj:passauxadvcladvmodnmod:posscaseobjcopdetcompoundpunctpunctccnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscasedetoblcasedetamodpunctamodcompoundpunctnmodpunctnsubjauxacldetobl:unmarkedadvmodpunctrootBuldeoPROPNwasAUXexplainingVERBhowADVtheDETtigerNOUNthatPRONhadAUXcarriedVERBawayADVMessuaPROPN’sPARTsonNOUNwasAUXaDETghostNOUN-PUNCTtigerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONbodyNOUNwasAUXinhabitedVERBbyADPtheDETghostNOUNofADPaDETwickedADJ,PUNCToldADJmoneyNOUN-PUNCTlenderNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXdiedVERBsomeDETyearsNOUNagoADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuldeoBuldeoPROPNNumber=Sing3 explainingnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 explainingaux
3explainingexplainVERBVerbForm=Ger18 tigercsubj
4howhowADVPronType=Int9 carriedadvmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 tigerdet
6tigertigerNOUNNumber=Sing9 carriednsubj:pass
7thatthatPRONPronType=Rel9 carriednsubj:pass
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 carriedaux
9carriedcarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 explainingadvcl
10awayawayADV_9 carriedadvmod
11MessuaMessuaPROPNNumber=Sing13 sonnmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 Messuacase
13sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing9 carriedobj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 tigercop
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 tigerdet
16ghostghostNOUNNumber=Sing18 tigercompound
17--PUNCT_16 ghostpunct
18tigertigerNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
19,,PUNCT_24 inhabitedpunct
20andandCCONJ_24 inhabitedcc
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 bodynmod:poss
22bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing24 inhabitednsubj:pass
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 inhabitedaux:pass
24inhabitedinhabitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 tigerparataxis
25bybyADP_27 ghostcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 ghostdet
27ghostghostNOUNNumber=Sing24 inhabitedobl
28ofofADP_35 lendercase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 lenderdet
30wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos35 lenderamod
31,,PUNCT_30 wickedpunct
32oldoldADJDegree=Pos35 lenderamod
33moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing35 lendercompound
34--PUNCT_33 moneypunct
35lenderlenderNOUNNumber=Sing27 ghostnmod
36,,PUNCT_39 diedpunct
37whowhoPRONPronType=Rel39 diednsubj
38hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 diedaux
39dieddieVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part35 lenderacl
40somesomeDETPronType=Ind41 yearsdet
41yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur42 agoobl:unmarked
42agoagoADV_39 diedadvmod
43..PUNCT_18 tigerpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1explain speech: assertpast · progressiveBuldeovn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2carry awaypast · perfect · passivethe tigeraway propertyvn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary son=Value
3is apastexplaininga ghost tigertree rules
4inhabitpast · passivethe ghost of a wicked old money lenderBuldeo's bodytree rules
5diepast · perfecta wicked old money lenderago propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6ghosta wicked old money lendernom ghost «cognition 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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