The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 144
As for their dancing, I have seen the place where--Bapree-bap!
Who acts: I, walls · What happens: see, dance · To what, where: place
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, walls), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 dancing | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dancing | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 bap | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 bap | punct |
| 13 | Bapree | Bapree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bap | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bap | punct |
| 15 | bap | bap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | the place Bapree bap | as walls's dancing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus as dancing=Attribute | |||
| 2 | dance | walls = wall | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=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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