The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 51

To talk of the soul of a money-lender in a beast that never had the courage of a jackal is child’s talk.”

Who acts: courage · What happens: talk, not have, be · To what, where: beast, talk

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 (courage), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 talk	mark
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 soul	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soul	det
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 lender	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lender	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lender	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 money	punct
10	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soul	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 beast	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beast	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 courage	det
18	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talk	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 jackal	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 jackal	det
21	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 courage	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 talk	cop
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talk	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 child	case
25	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive			a beast	of the soul of a money lender	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not have	past		a beast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	is a	present	the courage of a jackal	child's talk			tree rules

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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