The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 19
And the Law does not say who may or may not pay that price.
Who acts: Law · What happens: not say, not pay · To what, where: price · 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 (Law), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 say | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Law | det |
| 3 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 say | advmod |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | aux |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 pay | advmod |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 price | det |
| 14 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | the Law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not pay | may | that price | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |
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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