The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 98
“I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time,” said Father Wolf.
Who acts: Father Wolf · What happens: hear, say · 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 (Father 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 | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 again | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 now | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 thing | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 now | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pack | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Pack | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 Pack | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Pack | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Pack | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 time | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Pack | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Wolf | compound |
| 26 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Father Wolf = wolf | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Father Wolf | 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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