The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 74

“What I want to know,” said the young mule, who had been quiet for a long time--“what I want to know is, why we have to fight at all.”

Who acts: I, young mule · What happens: want, know, say, be, have, fight · To what, where: young mule, all · 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, young mule), 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	_	4 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	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	12 mule	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mule	amod
12	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quiet	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 quiet	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 quiet	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 quiet	cop
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mule	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quiet	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 quiet	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 know	mark
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 want	xcomp
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 have	advmod
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 fight	mark
35	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 fight	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	I					tree rules
2	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past · perfect	the young mule			time	quiet property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present		the young mule				tree rules
6	want in a quote	present	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	have in a quote	present	the young mule					tree rules
9	fight in a quote	to-infinitive	the young mule not said here		all			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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