The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 109
“The Monkey-People are forbidden,” said Baloo, “forbidden to the Jungle-People.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: forbid, say · To what, where: Monkey People · 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 (Baloo), 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 forbidden | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 People | det |
| 3 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 People | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Monkey | punct |
| 5 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forbidden | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 7 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbidden | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbidden | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbidden | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbidden | punct |
| 14 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 People | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 People | det |
| 17 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 People | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jungle | punct |
| 19 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 forbidden | obl:agent |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid in a quote | present · passive | the Monkey People | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Baloo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forbid in a quote | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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