The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 47
“Truly, a help in time of need; for none can hope to lead the Pack forever,” said Bagheera.
Who acts: none, Bagheera · What happens: hope, lead, say · To what, where: Pack · 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 (none, Bagheera), 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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 need | case |
| 9 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hope | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 hope | mark |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 hope | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hope | aux |
| 14 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lead | mark |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hope | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Pack | det |
| 18 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | obj |
| 19 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 16 lead | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hope | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hope | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | can | none | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | none not said here | the Pack | forever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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