The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 22
Good!” said the young wolves, who are always hungry.
Who acts: young wolves · What happens: say, be · To what, where: young wolves · 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 (young wolves), 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 | Good | good | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolves | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wolves | amod |
| 7 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hungry | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wolves | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the young wolves | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the young wolves | always, hungry property | tree rules |
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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