The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 14
Little Toomai remembered the Cawnpore elephant-lines and said nothing.
Who acts: Little Toomai · What happens: remember, say · To what, where: Cawnpore elephant lines, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Toomai | amod |
| 2 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lines | det |
| 5 | Cawnpore | Cawnpore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lines | compound |
| 6 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lines | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 elephant | punct |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remembered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Little Toomai | the Cawnpore elephant lines | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent line=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Toomai not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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