The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 44
“A brave heart and a courteous tongue,” said he.
Who acts: brave heart · What happens: say · 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 (brave heart), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heart | amod |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tongue | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tongue | det |
| 7 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongue | amod |
| 8 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a brave heart and a courteous tongue | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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