The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 61
When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, “And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.”
Who acts: two, Mowgli · What happens: listen, shout, have, lead · To what, where: Mowgli, top, tribe, Words, branches · 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 (two, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 listened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 listened | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouting | aux |
| 9 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 listened | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouting | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 so | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shouting | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tribe | det |
| 24 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 own | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 own | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tribe | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lead | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lead | cc |
| 30 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lead | obj |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 branches | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 branches | det |
| 34 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lead | obl |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 branches | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 lead | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the two | Mowgli | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past · progressive | Mowgli | the top of Mowgli's voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | Mowgli | a tribe of my own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lead in a quote | infinitive | Mowgli not said here | Words = word | the branches all day | long property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through branch=Destination |
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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