The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 34
We all say so, and so it must be true,” they shouted.
Who acts: We, jungle, People · What happens: say, be, shout · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, jungle, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 true | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 true | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 true | cop |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shouted | nsubj |
| 15 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | We | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | must | jungle | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | People | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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