The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 40
“Master Words for which people?” said Mowgli, delighted to show off.
Who acts: people · What happens: say, show off · To what, where: Master Words · 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 (people), 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 Words | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Words | compound |
| 3 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delighted | punct |
| 12 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 delighted | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 show | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | which people | Master Words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show off | to-infinitive | which people not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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