The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 52

There were yells of “Silence, thou man’s cub!”

Who acts: yells, thou, Silence · What happens: be, cub, yell · 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 (yells, thou, Silence), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yells	yell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Silence	case
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Silence	punct
6	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yells	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cub	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 cub	nsubj
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cub	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 cub	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 cub	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	be	past	yells of Silence	there	tree rules
2	cub in a quote		thou		tree rules
3	yell		Silence		nom yell «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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