The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 4
“Now,” he said, “I’ve taught you your lesson.”
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: say, teach · To what, where: Kotick, you · 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 (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taught | aux:pass |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | obj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kotick | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | present · passive | Kotick | you | 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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