The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 107
“The Bandar-log have shifted their grounds,” he said quietly.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: shift, say · To what, where: Bandar log · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagheera), 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 | _ | 7 shifted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 log | det |
| 3 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 log | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bandar | punct |
| 5 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shifted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shifted | aux |
| 7 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 shifted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shifted | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shifted | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shift in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Bandar log | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient grounds=Extent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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