The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 68

They say too--and it is true--that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.

Who acts: men, reason, that · What happens: say, be, become, lose · To what, where: teeth · 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 (men, reason, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 true	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	parataxis
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 become	nsubj
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eaters	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
13	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 become	nsubj
14	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	parataxis
15	mangy	mangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 become	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lose	cc
18	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 teeth	nmod:poss
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lose	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	men = man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	reason		true property	tree rules
3	become	present	that		mangy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lose	present		men's teeth		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality

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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