The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 93
“No man’s cub can run with the people of the jungle,” howled Shere Khan.
Who acts: cub · What happens: run, howl · To what, where: Shere Khan · 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 (cub), 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 | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cub | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 howled | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jungle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jungle | det |
| 13 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 16 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Khan | compound |
| 18 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 howled | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | can | no man's cub | with the people of the jungle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with people=Material | ||||
| 2 | howl | past | Shere Khan | tree rules |
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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