The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 80
“But what was the meaning of it all?” said Mowgli, who did not know anything of a python’s powers of fascination.
Who acts: meaning, Mowgli · What happens: be, say, not know · To what, where: anything · 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 (meaning, 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 said | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 it | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 what | nsubj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 it | det |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 know | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 know | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 powers | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 python | det |
| 22 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 powers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 python | case |
| 24 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 anything | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fascination | case |
| 26 | fascination | fascination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 powers | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | meaning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Mowgli | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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