The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 94
“He is Toomai, my son, Sahib,” said Big Toomai, scowling.
Who acts: Toomai · What happens: be, say, scowl · To what, where: Toomai · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Toomai | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Toomai | cop |
| 4 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Toomai | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sahib | punct |
| 9 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Toomai | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sahib | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sahib | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Toomai | amod |
| 14 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scowling | punct |
| 16 | scowling | scowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Toomai | Toomai | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Toomai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scowl | gerund | Toomai not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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