The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 117
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
Who acts: bull, I · What happens: kill, stand, nose · To what, where: den
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull, I), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bull | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bull | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bull | punct |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | nosing | nose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stand | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 den | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dog | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 den | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 dog | case |
| 17 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nosing | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 dues | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dues | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dues | amod |
| 21 | dues | due | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nosing | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the bull | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | I | by the bull | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bull=Location | ||||
| 3 | nose | gerund | I not said here | your dog's den | for my fair dues | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into den=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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