The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 123
“I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,” said the mule, “and the other’s one of your friends.
Who acts: mule · What happens: be, say · To what, where: piece mule · 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 (mule), 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 | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mule | det |
| 5 | breech | breech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 breech | punct |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mule | compound |
| 8 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’m | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gun | case |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gun | compound |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 number | nummod |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mule | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Battery | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Battery | det |
| 15 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 Battery | amod |
| 16 | Screw | Screw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Battery | compound |
| 17 | Battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gun | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mule | det |
| 22 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 one | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 one | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 one | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 one | amod |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 other | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 said | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 friends | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friends | nmod:poss |
| 32 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 one | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the mule = mule | the piece mule of number gun of the First Screw Battery | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mule=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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