The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 79
“As many times as there are nuts on that palm,” said Mowgli, who, naturally, could not count.
Who acts: nuts, Mowgli · What happens: be, say, not count · To what, where: palm · 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 (nuts, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 as | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 are | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 are | expl |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 are | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 palm | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 palm | det |
| 11 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 are | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 count | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 count | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 who | punct |
| 19 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 17 who | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 who | punct |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 count | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 count | advmod |
| 23 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Mowgli | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | nuts | that palm; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on palm=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not count | could | Mowgli | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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