The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 52
“You’re the only people I’ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch--and with worse manners.”
Who acts: You, Kotick · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: only people
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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ’re | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 met | advmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 met | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 Vitch | case |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Vitch | compound |
| 14 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 uglier | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 manners | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 manners | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 manners | case |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 manners | amod |
| 19 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 ’re | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | the only people | with worse manners | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | present · perfect | Kotick | the only people not said here | ever | ugly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-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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