The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 40
“The boy is safe, and it was I--I--I that caught Nag by the hood last night in the bathroom.”
Who acts: boy, tck, Rikki tikki · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: Rikki tikki, Nag, bathroom
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 (boy, tck, Rikki tikki), 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 | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | cop |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 I | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 I | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 I | cop |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 safe | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 I | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 I | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | conj |
| 17 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hood | det |
| 20 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obl |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bathroom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bathroom | det |
| 25 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the boy | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | tck | Rikki tikki and the melon bed near the wall = tikki | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | past | Rikki tikki and the melon bed near the wall = tikki | Nag | the bathroom | night | by the hood | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nag=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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