The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 127

By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.

Who acts: Red Flower, creature · What happens: mean, call, name · To what, where: fire · 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 (Red Flower, creature), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 Flower	case
2	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Flower	amod
3	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 meant	nsubj
4	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Flower	flat
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meant	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 creature	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 creature	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 jungle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jungle	det
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creature	nmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 call	aux
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	ccomp
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 name	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 name	nmod:poss
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 name	amod
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Red Flower	fire		tree rules
2	call	future	no creature in the jungle	fire	by creature's proper name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient
3	name		creature			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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