The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 121
“And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers.
Who acts: roar, Shere · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Shere
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 (roar, Shere), 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 | _ | 5 I | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 I | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 I | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 I | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 answers | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Raksha | punct |
| 7 | Raksha | Raksha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 answers | nsubj |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Demon | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Demon | det |
| 10 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Raksha | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 Demon | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answers | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 answers | nsubj |
| 14 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | roar | Shere | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present | Shere | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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