The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 96
“Of that I have my doubts,” said Petersen Sahib.
Who acts: Petersen, my · What happens: have, say, doubt · To what, where: doubts · 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 (Petersen, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 have | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 doubts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Petersen | Petersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Sahib | Sahib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Petersen | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Petersen | my doubts | of that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Petersen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | doubt in a quote | my | nom doubt «cognition 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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