The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 104
“No,” said Mowgli in a whisper, for the forest was very still now Baloo had finished.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: say, be · To what, where: whisper, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 whisper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 whisper | det |
| 9 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finished | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 finished | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finished | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 still | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 finished | advmod |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 finished | advmod |
| 18 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finished | aux |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | a whisper | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in whisper=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect · passive | the forest | still; now | finish property | 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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