The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 137
“They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine,” said Akela, sitting down composedly.
Who acts: stones, Pack · What happens: not be, say, sit down · 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 (stones, Pack), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Pack | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Pack | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Pack | advmod |
| 5 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 7 Pack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pack | det |
| 7 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Pack | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thine | case |
| 12 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 brothers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ” | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pack | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sitting | punct |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 said | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 composedly | advmod |
| 20 | composedly | composedly | ADV | _ | 18 sitting | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | stones = stone | unlike the Pack and this brothers of thine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Pack and this brothers of thine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | the Pack and this brothers of thine not said here | composedly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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