The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 177

“I told him on that day, when he crammed his head and shoulders into this cave, hunting for thy life, Little Frog--I told him that the hunter would be the hunted.

Who acts: I, Mowgli · What happens: tell, cram, hunt · To what, where: Mowgli, head, cave, Little Frog, hunter · 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 (I, Mowgli), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crammed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crammed	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crammed	nsubj
11	crammed	cram	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crammed	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shoulders	cc
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 head	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 cave	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 cave	det
18	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crammed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hunting	punct
20	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 crammed	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Frog	punct
25	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Frog	amod
26	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hunting	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 hunted	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hunter	det
33	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hunted	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hunted	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 hunted	aux:pass
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hunted	det
37	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 told	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		Mowgli		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	cram in a quote	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's head and shoulders		this cave			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into cave=Destination
3	hunt in a quote	gerund	Mowgli not said here	Little Frog				for thy life	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for life=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		Mowgli				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	hunt in a quote	would · passive		the hunter					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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