The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 83
Akela lifted his head again and said, “He has eaten our food.
Who acts: Akela · What happens: lift, say, eat · To what, where: head, food · 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 (Akela), 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 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 lifted | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eaten | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 eaten | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eaten | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eaten | aux |
| 12 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 food | nmod:poss |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eaten | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Akela | Akela's head | again | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Akela not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | present · perfect | Akela | our food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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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