The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 55
But the sea cows did not answer because Sea Cow cannot talk.
Who acts: sea cows, Sea Cow · What happens: not answer, not talk
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 (sea cows, Sea Cow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 answer | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cows | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cows | compound |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 answer | advmod |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 talk | mark |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cow | compound |
| 10 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talk | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 talk | advmod |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answer | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | the sea cows | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not talk | can | Sea Cow | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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