The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 2

“There is none like to me!” says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill; But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small.

Who acts: none, Cub, jungle, Brother · What happens: be, say, pride, kill · To what, where: earliest kill · 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 (none, Cub, jungle, Brother), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	ccomp
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 is	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 me	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 none	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cub	det
12	Cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pride	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pride	det
15	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Cub	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 kill	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 kill	nmod:poss
18	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 kill	amod
19	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pride	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 large	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 large	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jungle	det
23	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 large	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 large	cop
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 says	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 small	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Cub	det
28	Cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 small	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 small	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 small	cop
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 large	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	present	the Cub				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	the jungle			large property	tree rules
4	is	present	the Cub			small property	tree rules
5	pride			Brother's earliest kill			nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	kill		Brother				nom kill «act transitive»: 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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