The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 68
“No matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s huge right ear.
Who acts: matter · What happens: say, turn up · To what, where: fringe · 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 (matter), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Toomai | amod |
| 8 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 turning | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fringe | det |
| 13 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turning | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ear | case |
| 15 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ear | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kala | flat |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Kala | case |
| 18 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ear | amod |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ear | amod |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fringe | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | no matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn up | gerund | no matter not said here | the fringe of Kala's huge right ear | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fringe=Theme |
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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