The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 184
“What is the good of a man,” he said to himself at last, “if he does not understand man’s talk?
Who acts: Mowgli, man · What happens: be, say, not understand, talk · To what, where: Mowgli, last, talk · 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 (Mowgli, man), 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 | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 good | obl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 understand | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 understand | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 understand | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 understand | nsubj |
| 21 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 understand | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 understand | advmod |
| 23 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 talk | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 man | case |
| 26 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 understand | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | of a man; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Mowgli | Mowgli | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | not understand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | Mowgli | man's talk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | man | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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