The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 139
“He came naked, by night, alone and very hungry; yet he was not afraid!
Who acts: beast · What happens: come, not be
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 (beast), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 alone | punct |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hungry | cc |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 alone | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 14 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | beast | night | alone, naked property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | beast | afraid property | tree rules |
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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