The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 13
“Hah!” said Kaa with a chuckle, “he has friends everywhere, this manling.
Who acts: Hah, Kaa · What happens: say, have · To what, where: friends · 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 (Hah, Kaa), 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 | _ | 2 Hah | punct |
| 2 | Hah | Hah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 chuckle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chuckle | det |
| 9 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 has | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 manling | punct |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 manling | det |
| 18 | manling | manling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hah | with a chuckle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Kaa | friends | everywhere property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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