The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 39

“His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.

Who acts: mother, Mother Wolf · What happens: not call, say · To what, where: Father · 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 (mother, Mother Wolf), 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	_	6 call	punct
2	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 call	advmod
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	Lungri	Lungri	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	xcomp
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 One	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 One	det
11	Lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 One	amod
12	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Lungri	appos
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 One	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 nothing	case
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 call	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Wolf	compound
20	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not call in a quote	past · do-support	Father's mother	Father				for nothing	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for nothing=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	Mother Wolf					quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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