The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 119

When he got to the village he told a tale of magic and enchantment and sorcery that made the priest look very grave.

Who acts: Buldeo, sorcery, tale, magic · What happens: get, tell, make, look · To what, where: priest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buldeo, sorcery, tale, magic), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 magic	case
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tale	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 enchantment	cc
14	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 magic	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sorcery	cc
16	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 magic	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sorcery	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 priest	det
20	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 grave	advmod
23	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 look	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	Buldeo		to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Buldeo			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past	sorcery	the priest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset priest=Product
4	look	present	a tale of magic and enchantment and sorcery		grave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	tell		magic and enchantment and sorcery			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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