The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 170

“Come soon,” said Mother Wolf, “little naked son of mine.

Who acts: Mother · What happens: come, say · 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 (Mother), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mother	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
12	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Mother	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mine	case
15	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive						soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Mother						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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