The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 55
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
Who acts: Tabaqui, buck · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tabaqui, buck), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fat | mark |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 buck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fat | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fat | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 fat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | ccomp |
| 11 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bullocks | compound |
| 12 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fat | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | Tabaqui | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | our buck | like Tabaqui's fat and Waingunga bullocks | 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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