The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 66
By the Bull that bought me I made a promise—a little promise.
Who acts: Bull, I · What happens: buy, make · To what, where: me, promise
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 (Bull, I), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 Bull | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bull | det |
| 3 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bought | nsubj |
| 5 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Bull | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bought | iobj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 promise | det |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 promise | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 promise | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 promise | amod |
| 14 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promise | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | the Bull | me | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | I | a promise and a little promise | by the Bull | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
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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