The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 71
“It is only old Kaa making circles on the dust,” said Mowgli.
Who acts: shoulder, Mowgli · What happens: be, say · To what, where: dust · 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 (shoulder, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 7 making | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 making | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 making | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Kaa | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Kaa | amod |
| 6 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 making | nsubj |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 making | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 dust | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dust | det |
| 11 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 making | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 making | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | shoulder | the dust | make property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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