The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 3
Even gentle Matkah, his mother, said: “You will never be able to stop the killing.
Who acts: gentle Matkah, You · What happens: say, not be, stop · To what, where: killing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 Matkah | advmod |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Matkah | amod |
| 3 | Matkah | Matkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Matkah | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Matkah | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 able | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 killing | det |
| 19 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gentle Matkah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | future | You | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the killing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality killing=Eventuality |
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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