The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 151
“Of course,” said the troop horse, “everyone is not made in the same way, and I can quite see that your family, on your father’s side, would fail to understand a great many things.”
Who acts: troop horse, family · What happens: say, not make, see, fail, not understand · To what, where: everyone, same way, great many things · 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, family), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | compound |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 made | advmod |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 fail | mark |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 family | nmod:poss |
| 28 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fail | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 side | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 father | case |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 family | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 family | punct |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fail | aux |
| 37 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 understand | mark |
| 39 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fail | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 things | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 things | amod |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 things | amod |
| 43 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 understand | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the troop horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | present · passive | everyone | the same way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | can | the troop horse = horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fail in a quote | would | your family and your father's side | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not understand in a quote | to-infinitive | your family and your father's side not said here | a great many things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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