The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 20
“They are very like me,” said Mowgli, blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do.
Who acts: mists, Mowgli, woman · What happens: be, say, blow, see, do · To what, where: pot · 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 (mists, Mowgli, woman), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 me | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 me | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 me | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 me | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 me | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 12 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blowing | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 blowing | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | mists = mist | like Mowgli | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | Mowgli not said here | the pot | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into pot=Product | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Mowgli | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | present | the woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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