The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 39
That’s the worst kind of cowardice,” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, say · To what, where: worst kind, troop horse · 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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 kind | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cowardice | case |
| 7 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 12 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 troop | punct |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the worst kind | of cowardice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the troop horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=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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