The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 117
What Baloo had said about the monkeys was perfectly true.
Who acts: monkeys · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Baloo · 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 (monkeys), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 said | obj |
| 2 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 true | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkeys | det |
| 7 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 true | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 10 true | advmod |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Baloo | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the monkeys | perfectly, true 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/117/