The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 45
“Messy style of feeding, that,” said Kotick.
Who acts: Messy style · What happens: say · 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 (Messy style), 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 style | punct |
| 2 | Messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 style | amod |
| 3 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 feeding | case |
| 5 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 style | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 style | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 style | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 style | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Messy style of feeding | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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