The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 92
“Listen, man-cub,” said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on a hot night.
Who acts: Bear, voice · What happens: listen, say, rumble · To what, where: man cub · 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 (Bear, voice), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cub | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cub | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bear | det |
| 11 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rumbled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rumbled | cc |
| 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 | 16 rumbled | nsubj |
| 16 | rumbled | rumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 thunder | case |
| 18 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rumbled | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rumbled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | man cub | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rumble | participle | Bear's voice | night | like thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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