The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 104
“Has he eaten today, or does he hunt empty?” said Mowgli, for the answer meant life and death to him.
Who acts: Shere, Mowgli, answer · What happens: eat, hunt, say, mean · To what, where: life, Shere · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shere, Mowgli, answer), 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 | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunt | cc |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eaten | conj |
| 11 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hunt | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | 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 | _ | 20 meant | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 meant | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 answer | det |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meant | nsubj |
| 20 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meant | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 death | cc |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meant | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | present · perfect | Shere | today | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | present · do-support | Shere | empty property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | past | the answer | life and death | Shere | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot life=Theme to he=Attribute |
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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