The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 27

Men are only men, Little Brother, and their talk is like the talk of frogs in a pond.

Who acts: Men, talk, things · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: men

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 (Men, talk, things), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 men	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 men	advmod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Brother	punct
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Brother	amod
7	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 talk	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 talk	nmod:poss
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 talk	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 talk	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 talk	det
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Brother	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 frogs	case
17	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 talk	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pond	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pond	det
20	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frogs	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Men	men	Little Brother nmod	tree rules
2	is	present	things's talk		like the talk; of frogs in a pond	tree rules
3	talk		things = thing			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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