The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 38
“Let them breathe, Akela,” he said, holding up his hand.
Who acts: vines, Mowgli · What happens: let, breathe, say, hold up · To what, where: vines, hand · 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 (vines, 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Akela | punct |
| 6 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holding | punct |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 holding | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | vines = vine | Akela obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe in a quote | infinitive | vines = vine not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold up | gerund | Mowgli not said here | Mowgli's hand | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme |
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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