The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 118
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.
Who acts: I · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: old strength
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | aux |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 remember | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sick | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sick | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sick | cop |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rope | case |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chain | cc |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rope | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | aux |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 strength | nmod:poss |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strength | amod |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 affairs | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 affairs | det:predet |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 affairs | compound |
| 26 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 strength | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | future | I | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | of rope and chain; sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | future | I | my old strength and my forest affairs | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
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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