The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 73
When the dole was ended, laughingly she said, “Master, of a million mouths, is not one unfed?”
Who acts: dole, Shiva · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: Master, one · 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 (dole, Shiva), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dole | det |
| 3 | dole | dole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Master | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Master | punct |
| 12 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mouths | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mouths | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 million | det |
| 16 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 mouths | nummod |
| 17 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Master | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Master | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | unfed | unfed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 unfed | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dole | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Shiva | Master and million mouths | laughingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | one | tree rules |
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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