The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 166
“Never while we can follow a trail,” said the cubs.
Who acts: we, cubs · What happens: not follow, say · To what, where: trail · 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 (we, cubs), 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 follow | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 follow | advmod |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trail | det |
| 8 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cubs | det |
| 13 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow in a quote | can | we | a trail | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cubs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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