The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 169
“I suppose we’ve inherited them from our mothers,” said the troop horse.
Who acts: troop horse, we · What happens: suppose, inherit, say · To what, where: 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, we), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 inherited | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | 've | PUNCT | _ | 4 we | punct |
| 6 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 inherited | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mothers | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inherited | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | compound |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the troop horse = horse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inherit in a quote | past | we | Things = thing | from our mothers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from mother=Source | |||
| 3 | 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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