The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 106
Limmershin is a very quaint little bird, but he knows how to tell the truth.
Who acts: Limmershin · What happens: be, know, tell · To what, where: quaint little bird, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Limmershin), 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 | Limmershin | Limmershin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bird | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 quaint | advmod |
| 5 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knows | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 knows | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bird | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 tell | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Limmershin | a quaint little bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | Limmershin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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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