The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 133
I am only a baggage camel of the 39th Native Infantry, and I am not as brave as you are, my lords.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: baggage camel
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 (I, you), 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 | 6 camel | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 camel | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 camel | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 camel | det |
| 5 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 camel | compound |
| 6 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Infantry | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Infantry | det |
| 9 | 39th | 39th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 Infantry | amod |
| 10 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Infantry | amod |
| 11 | Infantry | infantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 camel | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brave | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brave | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brave | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 brave | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 brave | advmod |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 camel | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 are | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 are | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brave | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lords | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lords | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 camel | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 camel | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 camel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a baggage camel and my lords | of the 39th Native Infantry | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | I | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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