The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 16
“But it is not here,” said the camel and the bullocks.
Who acts: snort, camel · What happens: not be, 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 (snort, camel), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 here | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 here | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 here | advmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camel | det |
| 11 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bullocks | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bullocks | det |
| 14 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 camel | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | snort | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the camel and the bullocks | 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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