The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 133
They called me also--`yellow fish’ was it not?”
Who acts: Chattering, yellow fish · What happens: not call, be · To what, where: me, fish · 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 (Chattering, yellow fish), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 6 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 8 fish | punct |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fish | amod |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 it | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fish | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 called | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call speech: assert | past | Chattering | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | yellow fish | fish | tree rules |
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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