The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 22
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
Who acts: Tabaqui, dry bone · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: person, good feast · 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 (Tabaqui, dry bone), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 wolf | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wolf | punct |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 wolf | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wolf | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wolf | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Tabaqui | Tabaqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 mean | cc |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 mean | mark |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 mean | advmod |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mean | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 myself | case |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 mean | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bone | det |
| 22 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bone | amod |
| 23 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feast | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 feast | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 feast | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feast | amod |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mean | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tabaqui | for a wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | infinitive | a person | as Tabaqui | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent person=Topic as myself=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a dry bone | a good feast | 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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