The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 128

Akela!” said Mowgli, clapping his hands.

Who acts: Akela · What happens: say, clap · To what, where: hands · 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 (Akela), 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	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Akela	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Akela	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clapping	punct
7	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clapping	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Akela						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	clap in a quote	gerund	Akela not said here	Akela's hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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