The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 94
“And what is a man that he should not run with his brothers?” said Mowgli.
Who acts: man, Mowgli · What happens: be, not run, say · To what, where: man · 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 (man, 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 man | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 man | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 run | advmod |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 run | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not run in a quote | should | man | a man not said here | with man's brothers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product with brother=Material | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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