The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 19
“How can his little head carry all thy long talk?”
Who acts: thy · What happens: carry, talk · To what, where: long talk
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 (thy), 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 carry | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 can | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 can | nsubj |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 talk | advmod |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 talk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 talk | amod |
| 11 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | can | thy long talk | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | thy | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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