The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 99

“By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli, who was trying to get at the shoulder, “must I stay babbling to an old ape all noon?

Who acts: Bull, Mowgli, I · What happens: buy, say, try, get, stay, babble · To what, where: me, shoulder, old ape · 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 (Bull, Mowgli, I), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 Bull	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bull	det
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bought	nsubj
6	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Bull	acl:relcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bought	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bull	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Bull	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 trying	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trying	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 trying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	aux
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoulder	det
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stay	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 stay	punct
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 stay	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 stay	nsubj
25	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	conj
26	babbling	babble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 stay	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 ape	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ape	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ape	amod
30	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 babbling	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 noon	det
32	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 babbling	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	past	the Bull	me				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past					by the Bull	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	past · progressive	Mowgli					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here		the shoulder			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	stay in a quote	must	I					tree rules
6	babble in a quote	gerund	I not said here	a old ape		noon		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ape=Recipient

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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