The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 99
“Little Brother,” said he, “feel under my jaw.”
Who acts: Little Brother · What happens: say, feel · To what, where: jaw · 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 (Little Brother), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brother | amod |
| 3 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brother | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brother | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 jaw | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | infinitive | my jaw | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent under jaw=Location |
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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