The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 167
All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves!
Who acts: Akela · What happens: say, be, look · To what, where: O Wolves · 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), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 said | ccomp |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 7 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 Look | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wolves | punct |
| 10 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wolves | compound |
| 11 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Look | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Akela | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | Akela not said here | O Wolves | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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