The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 20

“They have no Law, no Hunting Call, and no leaders--nothing but foolish words and little picking thievish hands.

Who acts: People · What happens: have, pick · To what, where: Law, thievish hands

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 Law	det
5	Law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Call	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 Call	det
8	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Call	compound
9	Call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Law	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaders	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaders	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 leaders	det
13	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 leaders	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 words	cc
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 words	amod
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nothing	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 picking	cc
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 picking	amod
21	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 words	conj
22	thievish	thievish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hands	amod
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 picking	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	People	no Law				no leaders obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient
2	pick in a quote	gerund	People not said here	thievish hands					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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