The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 88
My mouth is cut and wounded with the stones from the village, but my heart is very light, because I have come back to the jungle.
Who acts: heart, I · What happens: cut, wound, be, come back · To what, where: mouth, 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 (heart, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wounded | cc |
| 6 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cut | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wounded | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stones | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 light | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 light | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 light | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 light | advmod |
| 19 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cut | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cut | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 jungle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jungle | det |
| 28 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | My mouth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | wound | participle | with the stones from the village | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my heart | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come back | present · perfect | I | the jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location |
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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