The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 129
“How shall I know Sea Cow when I meet him?” said Kotick, sheering off.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: know, meet, say, sheer off · To what, where: Sea Cow, Vitch · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | compound |
| 7 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sheering | punct |
| 17 | sheering | sheer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 sheering | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | shall | Kotick | Sea Cow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | present | Kotick | Vitch | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Kotick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sheer off | gerund | Kotick not said here | tree rules |
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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