The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 47

“What’s bridle-wise?” said the young mule.

Who acts: young mule · What happens: say · 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 (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	_	6 wise	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wise	nsubj
3	’s	's	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wise	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bridle	punct
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mule	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mule	amod
12	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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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