The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 69
“They have said my name to Petersen Sahib, and perhaps--and perhaps--and perhaps--who knows?
Who acts: ears, my · What happens: say, know, name · To what, where: name, Petersen · 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 (ears, my), 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Petersen | case |
| 8 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Petersen | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knows | cc |
| 12 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 knows | advmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knows | cc |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 knows | advmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knows | cc |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 knows | advmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knows | nsubj |
| 21 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | ears = ear | my name | Petersen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to petersen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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