The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 94

What says the Law of the Jungle, Baloo?”

What happens: say · To what, where: Law · 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: 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Law	det
4	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Jungle	det
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Law	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Baloo	punct
9	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Law	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Law	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the Law of the Jungle and Baloo					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent law=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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