The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 134

“Worm--worm--earth-worm,” said Bagheera, “as well as other things which I cannot now say for shame.”

Who acts: Worm · What happens: say, not say · To what, where: other things · 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 (Worm), 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 Worm	punct
2	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 worm	punct
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Worm	conj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 earth	punct
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worm	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 earth	punct
8	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worm	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Worm	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Worm	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 things	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 things	punct
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 things	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 say	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 say	advmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 say	advmod
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 things	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 shame	case
27	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Worm and worm and earth worm	other things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	can	Worm and worm and earth worm = worm	other things			now	for shame	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=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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