The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 135
“Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!”
Who acts: man, Mowgli · What happens: speak up, set · To what, where: coat ablaze
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 (man, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 7 speaks | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 7 speaks | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speaks | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 speaks | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speaks | nsubj |
| 7 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 speaks | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ablaze | det |
| 14 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ablaze | compound |
| 15 | ablaze | ablaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other in a quote | present | a man | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set in a quote | future | Mowgli | that coat ablaze | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ablaze=Result |
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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