The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 6
“Next year,” said Matkah to Kotick, “you will be a holluschickie; but this year you must learn how to catch fish.”
Who acts: Matkah, you · What happens: say, be, learn, catch · To what, where: holluschickie, fish · 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 (Matkah, you), 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 | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 2 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Matkah | Matkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Kotick | case |
| 9 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Matkah | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holluschickie | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 holluschickie | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 holluschickie | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 holluschickie | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 holluschickie | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 holluschickie | det |
| 16 | holluschickie | holluschickie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Matkah | appos |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 learn | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 learn | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 learn | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 learn | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 learn | aux |
| 23 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 catch | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 catch | mark |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 learn | xcomp |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catch | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 learn | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Matkah to Kotick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | you | a holluschickie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | must | you | year | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
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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