The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 179
“Feet or no feet, I can keep abreast of all thy four,” said Kaa shortly.
Who acts: Feet, Kaa · What happens: keep, say · To what, where: four · 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 (Feet, Kaa), 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 | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 2 | Feet | feet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 feet | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 feet | det |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Feet | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Feet | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 10 | abreast | abreast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 abreast | obl |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 four | nmod:poss |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | can | Feet or no feet | thy four | abreast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kaa | shortly 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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