The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 68
“Mowgli,” said Baloo, “thou hast been talking with the Bandar-log--the Monkey People.”
Who acts: Mowgli, thou · What happens: say, talk · 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 (Mowgli, thou), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mowgli | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mowgli | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talking | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 talking | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 talking | nsubj |
| 10 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talking | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 talking | aux |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 log | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 log | det |
| 15 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 log | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bandar | punct |
| 17 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talking | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 People | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 People | det |
| 20 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 People | compound |
| 21 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 log | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | thou | with the Bandar log the Monkey People | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with log=Co-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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