The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 67
Above all, he is always hungry,” said Baloo hopefully.
Who acts: whisper, Baloo · What happens: be, say · To what, where: all · 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 (whisper, Baloo), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | whisper | always, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Baloo | all | hopefully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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