The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 87
I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy.
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: hide
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 (I, heart), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dance | nsubj |
| 2 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hide | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hide | det |
| 5 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dance | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Shere | case |
| 7 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nmod |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Shere | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heavy | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 heavy | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heavy | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 heavy | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 heavy | advmod |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dance | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | I | the hide of Shere | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hide=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my heart | heavy property | tree rules |
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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