The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 111
“Yes,” said Mowgli, without turning his head, chuckling a little.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: say, turn, chuckle · To what, where: head, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 turning | mark |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chuckling | punct |
| 13 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 turning | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chuckling | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Mowgli not said here | Mowgli's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chuckle | gerund | Mowgli not said here | a little | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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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