The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 13
“Nay,” purred Bagheera, “that may not be.
Who acts: that · What happens: purr, not be · To what, where: Bagheera
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 purred | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 purred | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 purred | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 purred | punct |
| 5 | purred | purr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 purred | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 be | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 be | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 purred | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 purred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | participle | Bagheera | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagheera=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not be in a quote | may | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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