The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 79

The children had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowgli for not taking better care of the herd.

Who acts: Buldeo, herd · What happens: tell, go out, correct, not take, care · To what, where: children, Mowgli, better care · 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, herd), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 stampede	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stampede	det
9	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stampede	compound
10	stampede	stampede	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 anxious	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 correct	mark
22	correct	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anxious	xcomp
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 correct	obj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 taking	mark
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 taking	advmod
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 correct	advcl
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 herd	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 herd	det
31	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 care	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the children			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient village=Topic
2	go out	past	Buldeo			angrily, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	correct speech: disagree	to-infinitive	Buldeo not said here		Mowgli		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Patient
4	not take	gerund	Buldeo not said here	better care of the herd			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	care		the herd				nom care «act 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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