The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 132
“My lords,” said the camel humbly, “we dreamed bad dreams in the night, and we were very much afraid.
Who acts: lords, we · What happens: say, dream, be · To what, where: camel, bad dreams · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, we), 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 | _ | 3 lords | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lords | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lords | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lords | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camel | det |
| 8 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreamed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreamed | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dreamed | nsubj |
| 13 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dreams | amod |
| 15 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dreamed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dreamed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 afraid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 afraid | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 afraid | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 afraid | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 afraid | advmod |
| 25 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lords | the camel | humbly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dream in a quote | past | we | bad dreams | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | we | afraid property | tree rules |
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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