The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 173

And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man.

Who acts: Messua, Buldeo, Akela · What happens: cry, embroider, end, say, stand up, talk · To what, where: story, hind legs, jungle · 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 (Messua, Buldeo, Akela), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 cried	cc
2	Messua	Messua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 embroidered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 embroidered	cc
6	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 embroidered	nsubj
7	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 embroidered	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 adventures	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 adventures	nmod:poss
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 story	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 jungle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jungle	det
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adventures	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ended	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 ended	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ended	nsubj
19	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 embroidered	conj
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 saying	mark
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 ended	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 stood	mark
23	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saying	ccomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 stood	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 legs	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 legs	nmod:poss
28	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 legs	amod
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stood	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 talked	cc
31	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 legs	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 talked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Messua				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	embroider	past	Buldeo	the story of Messua's adventures in the jungle			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Product
3	end	past	Buldeo				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Buldeo not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stand up	past	Akela		Messua's hind legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
6	talk	participle	Akela not said here			like a man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	adventure		Messua		the jungle		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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