The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 145
“Well, I’ve certainly learned something tonight,” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: troop horse · What happens: learn, say · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troop horse), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 learned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 learned | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 learned | aux |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 learned | advmod |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 learned | obj |
| 9 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learned | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learned | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 learned | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 14 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 troop | punct |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | the troop horse = horse | something | tonight | certainly property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the troop horse | 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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