The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 76
“He knows more than we,” said Bagheera, trembling.
Who acts: Whoof, Bagheera · What happens: know, say, tremble · To what, where: more · 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 (Whoof, Bagheera), 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 | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 knows | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 we | case |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembling | punct |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Whoof | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | Bagheera not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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