The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 158
Akela from his rock would cry: “Ye know the Law--ye know the Law.
Who acts: Akela, Ye · What happens: cry, know · To what, where: Law · 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 (Akela, Ye), 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 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 rock | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Akela | nmod |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cry | aux |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cry | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Law | det |
| 12 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Law | det |
| 17 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | would | Akela from Akela's rock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Ye | the Law | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | ye | the Law | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus |
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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