The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 135
“I haven’t been doing anything but fight since the middle of May.
Who acts: Matkah · What happens: not do · To what, where: anything
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 (Matkah), 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 | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 doing | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 doing | aux |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fight | cc |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anything | conj |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anything | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 May | case |
| 14 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Matkah | anything | since the middle of May | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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