The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 103
“Shere Khan does us great honor,” said Father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry.
Who acts: Shere Khan, Father Wolf, eyes · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shere Khan, Father Wolf, eyes), 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 | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 2 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Khan | compound |
| 3 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 does | obj |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 honor | amod |
| 7 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wolf | compound |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 angry | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 angry | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 angry | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 angry | advmod |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Shere Khan | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Father Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Khan's eyes | angry property | tree rules |
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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