The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 87
“It is nothing,” said Baloo; “we have the man-cub again.”
Who acts: neck, Baloo, we · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: nothing, man cub · 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 (neck, Baloo, we), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cub | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cub | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 16 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 have | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | neck | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Baloo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | the man cub | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |
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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