The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 85

“It must be the head”’ he said at last; “the head above the hood.

Who acts: bite, tikki · What happens: be, say · To what, where: head, last · 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 (bite, tikki), 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 head	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 head	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 head	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 head	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 head	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 head	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	above	above	ADP	_	19 hood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hood	det
19	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	bite	the head					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	tikki			last			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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