The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 57
It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,” said Mother Wolf.
Who acts: buck, H’sh, Mother Wolf · What happens: be, hunt, say · To what, where: bullock · 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 (buck, H’sh, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bullock | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bullock | cop |
| 3 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 bullock | cc:preconj |
| 4 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 buck | cc |
| 6 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bullock | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hunts | nsubj |
| 8 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bullock | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunts | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bullock | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bullock | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wolf | compound |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | buck | bullock nor buck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | H’sh = h'sh | bullock nor buck not said here | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mother Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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