The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 37
“My cousin Chua, the rat, told me--” said Chuchundra, and then he stopped.
Who acts: cousin, Chuchundra · What happens: tell, say, stop · To what, where: Chuchundra · 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 (cousin, 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 | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 4 | Chua | Chua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rat | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rat | det |
| 7 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Chua | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousin | punct |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Chuchundra | Chuchundra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stopped | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stopped | nsubj |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | My cousin | Chuchundra | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chuchundra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | Chuchundra | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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