The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 106
“Now the business is in thy hands,” said Bagheera to Mowgli.
Who acts: business, hands · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hands, Mowgli · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, hands), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hands | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 business | det |
| 4 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hands | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hands | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hands | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hands | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Mowgli | case |
| 14 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the business | thy hands | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thy hands | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mowgli=Recipient |
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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