The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 2
“Some bat’s chatter of Shere Khan,” he called back.
Who acts: Son, Shere · What happens: call back, chatter · To what, where: chatter
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 (Son, Shere), 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 | _ | 5 chatter | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bat | det |
| 3 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chatter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 bat | case |
| 5 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Shere | case |
| 7 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chatter | nmod |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Shere | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chatter | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chatter | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call back speech: assert | past | Son | some bat's chatter of Shere | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chatter in a quote | Shere | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: of=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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