The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 181
“No,” she said sorrowfully, “those feet have never worn shoes, but thou art very like my Nathoo, and thou shalt be my son.”
Who acts: talking, thou · What happens: say, not wear, be · To what, where: feet, son · 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 (talking, thou), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worn | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 worn | punct |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 feet | det |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 worn | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 worn | advmod |
| 14 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 worn | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 art | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 art | cc |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 art | nsubj |
| 19 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 worn | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 Nathoo | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 Nathoo | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Nathoo | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Nathoo | Nathoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 art | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 son | cc |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 son | nsubj |
| 27 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 30 son | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 son | cop |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worn | vocative |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | talking | sorrowfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not wear in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that feet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | thou | my son | 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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