The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 72

I suppose he’s so tame because we’ve been kind to him.”

Who acts: I, we · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: Teddy

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 suppose	nsubj
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ’s	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suppose	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tame	advmod
6	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ’s	xcomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 kind	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 kind	nsubj
9	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 kind	cop
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ’s	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kind	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	we		Teddy			kind 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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