The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 140
I set the time for all my troop, little lady,” he said politely.
Who acts: I, Billy · What happens: set, say · 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, Billy), 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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 troop | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 troop | det:predet |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 troop | nmod:poss |
| 8 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lady | punct |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 troop | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | parataxis |
| 16 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | I | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Billy | politely property | 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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