The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 60
“It is full time that boy went to herding,” said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli’s impertinence.
Who acts: word, full time, head man, Buldeo · What happens: be, go, say, puff, snort · To what, where: full time, herding, impertinence · 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 (word, full time, head man, Buldeo), 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 | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 herding | case |
| 10 | herding | herding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 puffed | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 puffed | mark |
| 20 | Buldeo | Buldeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 puffed | nsubj |
| 21 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 snorted | cc |
| 23 | snorted | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 puffed | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 impertinence | case |
| 25 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 impertinence | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Mowgli | case |
| 27 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 snorted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | word | full time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | full time | herding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the head man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | puff | past | Buldeo | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 5 | snort | past | Buldeo not said here | Mowgli's impertinence | vn eat-39.1 «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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