The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 93
“He saved our lives and Teddy’s life,” she said to her husband.
Who acts: father, Rikki · What happens: save, say · To what, where: lives, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Rikki), 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 | _ | 3 saved | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saved | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 life | cc |
| 7 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Teddy | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | past | father | our lives and Teddy's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rikki | Rikki's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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