The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 88
“I’ve no nursery to fight for,” said Kotick.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: have, fight, say · To what, where: nursery · 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), 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 ’ve | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 nursery | det |
| 5 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fight | mark |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nursery | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fight | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Kotick | no nursery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | no nursery not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kotick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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