The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 54
He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: “Let the Dead Wolf speak.”
Who acts: last, Dead Wolf · What happens: keep, thunder, let, speak · To what, where: yell, Dead Wolf · 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 (last, Dead Wolf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Law | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thundered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thundered | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thundered | nsubj:outer |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seniors | det |
| 12 | seniors | senior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 last | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pack | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Pack | det |
| 15 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seniors | nmod |
| 16 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 19 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Wolf | det |
| 21 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Wolf | compound |
| 22 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Let | obj |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Let | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect · passive | yell | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme law=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | thunder in a quote | past | last | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the Dead Wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | the Dead Wolf not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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