The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 106

A man’s cub went this way,” said Shere Khan.

Who acts: cub, Shere Khan · What happens: go, say · To what, where: way · 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 (cub, Shere Khan), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cub	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
11	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Khan	compound
12	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a man's cub	this way					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Shere Khan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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