The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 135
“Shere Khan speaks this much truth.
Who acts: Shere · What happens: speak · To what, where: much truth · 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), 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 speaks | punct |
| 2 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shere | flat |
| 4 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 truth | det |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 truth | amod |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | Shere | this much truth | 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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