The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 2
“We were lonely in the jungle without thee,” and Bagheera came running to Mowgli’s bare feet.
Who acts: We, Bagheera · What happens: be, come, run · To what, where: jungle
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 (We, Bagheera), 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 | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lonely | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lonely | cop |
| 4 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 jungle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jungle | det |
| 7 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lonely | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 lonely | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lonely | conj |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 17 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Mowgli | case |
| 19 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feet | amod |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 running | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | We | the jungle | without thee; lonely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Bagheera | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | Bagheera not said here | to Mowgli's bare feet result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to foot=Result |
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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