The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 152
“They have no manners, these Men Folk,” said Mowgli to himself.
Who acts: men, Mowgli · What happens: have, say · To what, where: manners, Mowgli · 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 (men, Mowgli), 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 | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 manners | det |
| 5 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Folk | punct |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Folk | det |
| 8 | Men | Men | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Folk | compound |
| 9 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 manners | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | men = man | no manners this Men Folk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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