The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 125
Most of the white men, I know, have things in their pockets,” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: I, Most · What happens: know, have, say · To what, where: things, pockets, troop horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Most), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Most | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | ccomp |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pockets | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obl | |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Most | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 19 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horse | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 troop | punct |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | things | things's pockets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Most of the white men | the troop horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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