The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 147

They say thou art a sorcerer who can turn himself into a beast at will.

Who acts: Pack, sorcerer · What happens: say, turn · To what, where: Messua, beast · 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 (Pack, sorcerer), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 art	nsubj
4	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sorcerer	det
6	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 art	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 turn	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	aux
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sorcerer	acl:relcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 turn	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 beast	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 will	case
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Pack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	turn	can	a sorcerer	Messua		a beast			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into beast=Trajectory

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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