The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 111
“There is no need for this dog’s jabber.
Who acts: need, dog · What happens: be, jabber
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 (need, dog), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 need | det |
| 5 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 jabber | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jabber | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 10 | jabber | jabber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no need for this dog's jabber | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jabber in a quote | this dog | nom jabber «communication intransitive»: poss=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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