The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 12
He will crush our young,” said the cobras inside.
Who acts: I. · What happens: crush, say · To what, where: young, cobras · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I.), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crush | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 crush | aux |
| 3 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 young | nmod:poss |
| 5 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crush | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crush | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crush | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cobras | det |
| 10 | cobras | cobra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 cobras | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | future | I. | our young | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the cobras | tree rules |
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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