The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 110
“Oh, it was you,” said the mule, “you and your friends, that have been disturbing the camp?
Who acts: pole, you · What happens: be, say, disturb · To what, where: you, mule, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pole, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 you | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 you | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mule | det |
| 11 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disturbing | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 disturbing | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 disturbing | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 friends | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 you | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disturbing | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 disturbing | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 disturbing | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 disturbing | aux |
| 22 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 camp | det |
| 24 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disturbing | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | pole | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | you | the mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mule=Topic | ||||
| 3 | disturb in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | the camp | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus camp=Experiencer |
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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