The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 33
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes,” said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.
Who acts: Chuchundra · What happens: kill, get, say · To what, where: snakes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chuchundra), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Those | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 snakes | case |
| 9 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 killed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Those | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Those | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Chuchundra | Chuchundra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Chuchundra | conj |
| 16 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 sorrowfully | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present | snakes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | participle | by snakes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Chuchundra | sorrowfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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