The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 89

Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people’s whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men’s hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.

Who acts: kites, day, kings · What happens: sing, seem, make, put, reed, pretend · To what, where: long long songs, mud castle, hands, kings, armies, gods

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 (kites, day, kings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sing	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 songs	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 songs	amod
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 quavers	case
9	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quavers	amod
10	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quavers	amod
11	quavers	quaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quavers	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 end	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seems	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seems	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seems	nsubj
21	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	conj
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 seems	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	28 lives	case
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lives	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 people	case
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lives	amod
28	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 longer	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 make	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
33	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 castle	det
35	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 castle	compound
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 figures	case
38	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 figures	compound
39	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 castle	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 men	case
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 figures	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 horses	cc
43	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 men	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 buffaloes	cc
45	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 men	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 put	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 put	cc
48	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 reeds	csubj
49	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	parataxis
50	into	into	ADP	_	54 hands	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 men	det
52	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 hands	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 men	case
54	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 reeds	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 pretend	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 pretend	cc
57	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	conj
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 kings	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 kings	nsubj
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 kings	cop
61	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 armies	nsubj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 figures	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 figures	det
64	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 kings	conj
65	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 armies	cop
66	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 armies	nmod:poss
67	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 pretend	ccomp
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 worshiped	punct
69	or	or	CCONJ	_	76 worshiped	cc
70	that	that	SCONJ	_	76 worshiped	mark
71	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 gods	nsubj
72	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 gods	cop
73	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 worshiped	nsubj:pass
74	to	to	PART	_	76 worshiped	mark
75	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	76 worshiped	aux:pass
76	worshiped	worship	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sing	conj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	kites = kite	long long songs		then	with odd native quavers at the end of quavers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	seem	present	the day				long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	make	present	kites = kite	a mud castle			with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes; perhaps property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product
4	put	infinitive						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	reed	present			the men's hands			tree rules
6	pretend	present	kites = kite not said here					tree rules
7	is a	present	kites = kite	kings and the figures				tree rules
8	is a	present	kings and the figures	kites's armies				tree rules
9	is a	present	kites = kite	gods				tree rules
10	worship	to-infinitive · passive		gods				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
11	figure			men and horses and buffaloes				nom figure «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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