The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 10
Answer, or I shall teach you again,” roared Kotick.
Who acts: I, Answer · What happens: teach, roar · To what, where: you, Kotick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Answer), 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 | Answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 teach | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 teach | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 teach | aux |
| 6 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Answer | appos |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | iobj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 teach | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
| 11 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 roared | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | shall | I | you | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | roar in a quote | past | Answer | Kotick | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kotick=Theme |
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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