The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 73
“It is very lucky for us that we haven’t all got to fight in the same way,” said the troop-horse.
Who acts: saddle, we, troop horse · What happens: be, not get, fight, say · To what, where: same way · 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 (saddle, we, troop horse), 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 | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lucky | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lucky | advmod |
| 5 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lucky | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lucky | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 24 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 horse | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 troop | punct |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | saddle | for us; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | we | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the same way | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the troop horse | 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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