The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 20
“But this wasn’t harness or anything that jingled,” said the young mule.
Who acts: this, young mule · What happens: not be, jingle, say · To what, where: harness · 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 (this, young mule), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 harness | cc |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 harness | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 harness | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 harness | advmod |
| 6 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 anything | cc |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 harness | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 jingled | nsubj |
| 10 | jingled | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jingled | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 anything | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mule | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mule | amod |
| 16 | mule | mule | 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 | not is a in a quote | past | this | harness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jingle in a quote | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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