The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 152
“Never you mind my family on my father’s side,” said Billy angrily, for every mule hates to be reminded that his father was a donkey.
Who acts: you, mule, father · What happens: not mind, say, hate, remind, be · To what, where: family, side, donkey · 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 (you, mule, father), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Billy | billy | ADV | _ | 16 angrily | advmod |
| 16 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hates | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 hates | mark |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 mule | det |
| 20 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hates | nsubj |
| 21 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 reminded | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 reminded | aux:pass |
| 24 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hates | xcomp |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 donkey | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 donkey | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 donkey | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 donkey | det |
| 30 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reminded | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | present | you | my family | my father's side | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hate | present | every mule | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | remind speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | every mule not said here | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient» | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | mule's father | a donkey | 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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