The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 39
This little one shall no more be called Little Toomai, but Toomai of the Elephants, as his great-grandfather was called before him.
What happens: call · To what, where: little one, great grandfather · 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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Toomai | amod |
| 10 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Toomai | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Toomai | cc |
| 13 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Elephants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Elephants | det |
| 16 | Elephants | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Toomai | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 called | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grandfather | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 22 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 called | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | shall · passive | this little one | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Toomai's great grandfather | before Toomai | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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