The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 109
“Oh, thou art a man’s cub,” said the Black Panther very tenderly.
Who acts: Black Panther · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Panther), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 art | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 art | nsubj |
| 5 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cub | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 art | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Panther | det |
| 14 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Panther | compound |
| 15 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 tenderly | advmod |
| 17 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Panther | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Black Panther | 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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