The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 34
“But giving a thing a long name doesn’t make it any better.”
Who acts: giving · What happens: give, not make · To what, where: thing, name · 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 (giving), 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 | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 giving | cc |
| 3 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 make | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | obj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | any | any | ADV | _ | 14 better | advmod |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | gerund | a thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient name=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | present · do-support | giving | name | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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