The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 104
Singer and tailor am I-- Doubled the joys that I know-- Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew-- Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I sew.
Who acts: Singer, I · What happens: be, double, know, sew, weave · To what, where: I, joys, house, music
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Singer, 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 | Singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Doubled | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tailor | cc |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Singer | conj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 I | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Singer | conj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Singer | punct |
| 7 | Doubled | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 joys | det |
| 9 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Doubled | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 know | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 joys | acl:relcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Proud | punct |
| 14 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 know | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lilt | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lilt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lilt | lilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Proud | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lilt | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Proud | punct |
| 22 | Proud | Proud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Proud | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Proud | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sew | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 sew | nsubj |
| 28 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 Over | punct |
| 30 | Over | over | ADV | _ | 14 Proud | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 under | cc |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 Over | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 weave | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 weave | advmod |
| 35 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Doubled | conj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 weave | obj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 music | nmod:poss |
| 38 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 weave | obj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 weave | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 weave | advmod |
| 41 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 weave | conj |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 weave | obj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 house | det |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 weave | obj |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 sew | obj |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 sew | nsubj |
| 47 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 house | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Doubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Singer and tailor not said here | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | double | past | Singer and tailor | the joys | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | the joys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer proud=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sew | present | I | the house | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product | ||||
| 5 | weave | infinitive | Singer and tailor not said here | my music | I | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary music=Product | |||
| 6 | weave | infinitive | Singer and tailor not said here | the house | I | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary house=Product | |||
| 7 | sew | present | I | the house | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product |
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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