The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 120
All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird-- Hide or fin or scale or feather-- Jabber it quickly and all together!
Who acts: we, talk, Jabber · What happens: hear, utter, jabber · To what, where: talk
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 (we, talk, Jabber), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 talk | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 talk | det |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 talk | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 bat | case |
| 10 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Uttered | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 beast | cc |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bat | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 bird | cc |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bat | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hide | punct |
| 16 | Hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fin | cc |
| 18 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Hide | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 scale | cc |
| 20 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Hide | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 feather | cc |
| 22 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Hide | conj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Jabber | punct |
| 24 | Jabber | jabber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | appos |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Jabber | nsubj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 Jabber | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 together | cc |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 together | advmod |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 quickly | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | we | all talk not said here | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | all talk not said here | by bat or beast or bird and Hide or fin or scale or feather | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jabber speech: other | Jabber | quickly property | 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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