The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 10
I am getting old, and I do not love wild elephants.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, not love · To what, where: wild elephants
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. 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 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 getting | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 love | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 love | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 love | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 love | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 love | advmod |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 getting | advcl |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 elephants | amod |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 love | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | I | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not love | present · do-support | I | wild elephants | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus |
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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