The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 127
“Go and ask Sea Cow,” said Sea Vitch.
Who acts: Sea Vitch · What happens: go, ask, say · To what, where: Sea Cow · 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 (Sea Vitch), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cow | compound |
| 6 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Vitch | compound |
| 11 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Sea Cow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sea Vitch | 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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