The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 58

“All the evening I have lain here listening,” he called back over his shoulder, “and, except once or twice, Buldeo has not said one word of truth concerning the jungle, which is at his very doors.

Who acts: Mowgli, truth, jungle · What happens: lie, listen, call back, not say, concern, be · To what, where: shoulder, Buldeo, jungle, doors, truth · 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 (Mowgli, truth, jungle), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 evening	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lain	obl:unmarked
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lain	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lain	aux
7	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 called	parataxis
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lain	advmod
9	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lain	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listening	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 lain	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 called	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 shoulder	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulder	nmod:poss
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	except	except	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 said	advmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 twice	cc
25	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 once	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 said	advmod
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 called	conj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 word	nummod
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 truth	case
34	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 word	nmod
35	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 truth	acl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 jungle	det
37	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 concerning	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 doors	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 doors	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 doors	cop
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 doors	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 doors	nmod:poss
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 doors	advmod
44	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 jungle	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present · perfect	Mowgli		here	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen in a quote	gerund	Mowgli not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	call back speech: assert	past	Mowgli		Mowgli's shoulder			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not say speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Buldeo			once property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme word=Manner
5	concern in a quote	gerund	truth not said here	the jungle and Mowgli's doors				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jungle=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	present	the jungle and Mowgli's doors		Mowgli's doors			tree rules
7	word in a quote			truth				nom word «communication 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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