The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 112
It’s me,” said Kotick, bobbing in the surf and looking like a little white slug.
Who acts: next, Kotick · What happens: be, say, bob, look · To what, where: me, surf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next, Kotick), 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 | 3 me | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 me | cop |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bobbing | punct |
| 9 | bobbing | bob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 surf | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surf | det |
| 12 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bobbing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looking | cc |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bobbing | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 slug | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 slug | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slug | amod |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slug | amod |
| 19 | slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | next | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Kotick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bob in a quote | gerund | Kotick not said here | the surf | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surf=Location | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | Kotick not said here | like a little white slug | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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