The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 35
“I will call Mowgli and he shall say them--if he will.
Who acts: face, Mowgli · What happens: call, say · To what, where: Mowgli, talons · 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 (face, 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 say | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 will | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 will | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 will | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | future | face | Mowgli | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | shall | Mowgli | talons = talon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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