The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 72

“Brothers, that was a dog’s death,” said Mowgli, feeling for the knife he always carried in a sheath round his neck now that he lived with men.

Who acts: that, Mowgli · What happens: be, say, feel, carry, live · To what, where: death, sheath · 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 (that, 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	_	2 Brothers	punct
2	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 death	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 death	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 death	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 dog	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brothers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brothers	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feeling	punct
15	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 knife	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feeling	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 carried	advmod
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 feeling	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sheath	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sheath	det
24	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sheath	nmod
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 carried	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 lived	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lived	nsubj
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 carried	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 men	case
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	that	a dog's death				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	feel	gerund	Mowgli not said here				for the knife	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for knife=Theme
4	carry	past	Mowgli		a sheath round Mowgli's neck	now	always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sheath=Location
5	live	past	Mowgli				with men	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location

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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