The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 72
“They tell me,” Shere Khan would say, “that at Council ye dare not look him between the eyes.”
Who acts: wolves, Shere · What happens: tell, say, not dare, not look · To what, where: Shere, Council · 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 (wolves, Shere), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Shere | flat |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Council | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Council | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Council | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Council | case |
| 15 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obj |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 Council | appos |
| 17 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | ccomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 dare | advmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dare | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | obj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eyes | det |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | wolves = wolf | Shere | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | would | Shere | Council | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not dare in a quote | infinitive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not look in a quote | infinitive | Shere | between the eyes | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute |
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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