The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 173
“By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli to himself, “but all this talking is like another looking-over by the Pack!
Who acts: Bull, Mowgli, talking · What happens: buy, say, look · To what, where: 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 (Bull, Mowgli, talking), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 Bull | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bull | det |
| 4 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bought | nsubj |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bull | acl:relcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bought | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bull | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bull | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 all | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 talking | det:predet |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 talking | det |
| 19 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 looking | aux |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 looking | mark |
| 22 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 23 looking | nsubj |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 said | advcl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 over | punct |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 looking | advmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Pack | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Pack | det |
| 28 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | past | the Bull | Mowgli | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Mowgli | Mowgli | by the Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | present · progressive | all talking | by the Pack; over property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by pack=Theme |
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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