The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 56

He has only six bones in his neck where he ought to have seven, and they say under the sea that that prevents him from speaking even to his companions.

Who acts: Kotick, bones, that · What happens: have, say, prevent, speak · To what, where: six bones, neck, seven, sea, Kotick, companions · 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 (Kotick, bones, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bones	nummod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bones	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 have	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 neck	acl:relcl
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 prevents	mark
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 prevents	nsubj
24	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 prevents	obj
26	from	from	SCONJ	_	27 speaking	mark
27	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 prevents	advcl
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 companions	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 companions	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 companions	nmod:poss
31	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 speaking	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Kotick	six bones	Kotick's neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	have	ought	Kotick	seven		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	bones = bone		the sea	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	prevent	present	that	Kotick		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
5	speak speech: other	gerund	that not said here	Kotick's companions		tree rules

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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