The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 29
Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.”
Who acts: I, children · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: men, beginning
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 (I, children), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 remembered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remembered | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 remembered | aux |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 men | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 men | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kings | case |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 men | cop |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remembered | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 beginning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beginning | det |
| 18 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | might · perfect | I | indeed property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the children of kings | men | from the beginning | 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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