The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 139
“I’ve often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,” said Matkah.
Who acts: I, we, Matkah · What happens: think, be, haul out, say · To what, where: Otter Island · 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 (I, we, Matkah), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 said | ccomp |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 happier | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happier | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happier | cop |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 happier | advmod |
| 10 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 hauled | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hauled | nsubj |
| 13 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hauled | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Island | case |
| 16 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Island | compound |
| 17 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hauled | obl |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 place | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 instead | fixed |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 21 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hauled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Matkah | Matkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | I | often property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | we | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | haul out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | Otter Island | instead this crowded place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Matkah | 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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