The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 111
“But why--but why should any wish to kill me?” said Mowgli.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: kill, say · To what, where: Mowgli · 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 (Mowgli), 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 why | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 why | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 wish | cc |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 wish | advmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | aux |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 wish | det |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | Mowgli | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Mowgli | 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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