The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 45

“I am a very poor man,” he sobbed.

Who acts: Chuchundra, poor man · What happens: be, sob · To what, where: poor man

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chuchundra, poor man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 poor	advmod
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sobbed	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sobbed	nsubj
11	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Chuchundra	a poor man					tree rules
2	sob	past	a poor man						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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