The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 104
“H’m!” said Rikki-tikki, “that is very sad--but I am a stranger here.
Who acts: Rikki, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: stranger · 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 (Rikki, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 H | punct |
| 2 | H | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ’m | 'm | PUNCT | _ | 2 H | punct |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 H | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 H | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tikki | punct |
| 9 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Rikki | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sad | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sad | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sad | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sad | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 sad | advmod |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 stranger | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stranger | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 stranger | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stranger | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sad | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stranger | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rikki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Rikki | a stranger | here | 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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