The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 67
Only thy coat is lacking before I keep my word.
Who acts: coat, I, my · What happens: lack, keep, word · To what, where: word
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 (coat, I, my), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 coat | advmod |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 coat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lacking | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lacking | aux |
| 5 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lacking | advcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lacking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lack | present · progressive | thy coat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | I | my word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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