The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 149

Buldeo says thou art a wizard, but I know thou hast avenged Nathoo’s death.”

Who acts: Buldeo, I, Nathoo · What happens: say, know, avenge, die · To what, where: thou · 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, I, Nathoo), 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	Buldeo	buldeo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 art	nsubj
4	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 art	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 know	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 avenged	nsubj:pass
12	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 avenged	aux
13	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 know	ccomp
14	Nathoo	Nathoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 death	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Nathoo	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 avenged	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buldeo		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	avenge	present · perfect · passive		thou	tree rules
4	die		Nathoo		nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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