The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 8
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, speak, gift · To what, where: gift, truth, words · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 gift | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gift | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speak | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 speak | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speak | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no gift of words | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | I | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gift | words | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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