The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 73
“But he would never have shown fight.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not show · To what, where: fight
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 | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 shown | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shown | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 shown | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shown | aux |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show in a quote | would · perfect | Mowgli | fight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fight=Recipient |
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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