The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 60
“Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without my order?
Who acts: Bandar log, ye, my · What happens: say, stir, order · To what, where: voice, last, foot · 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 (Bandar log, ye, my), 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 | _ | 4 log | punct |
| 2 | Bandar | bandar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 log | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bandar | punct |
| 4 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kaa | case |
| 11 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stir | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 stir | punct |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stir | aux |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 stir | nsubj |
| 18 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stir | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 hand | cc |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | conj |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 order | nmod:poss |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stir | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Bandar log | the voice of Kaa | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||
| 2 | stir in a quote | can | ye | foot or hand | without my order | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | order in a quote | my | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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