The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 167
“But are the beasts as wise as the men?” said the chief.
Who acts: chief · What happens: be, say · To what, where: beasts · 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 (chief), 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 | _ | 7 wise | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 beasts | cc |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beasts | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beasts | det |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wise | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 wise | advmod |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wise | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wise | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wise | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the beasts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the chief | 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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