The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 137
“This cattle-killer said he would kill me in the Council because he had not killed me when I was a cub.
Who acts: cattle killer, killer · What happens: say, kill, not kill, be · To what, where: cattle killer, Council, killer, cub · 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 (cattle killer, killer), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 killer | det |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killer | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 cattle | punct |
| 5 | killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 kill | aux |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Council | det |
| 13 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 killed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 killed | advmod |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kill | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 cub | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 cub | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cub | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cub | det |
| 24 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | this cattle killer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | would | killer | this cattle killer = killer | the Council | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | not kill in a quote | past · perfect · passive | killer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | this cattle killer = killer | a cub | tree rules |
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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