The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 179
And the bullocks went on, “We are sorry that you heard, but it is true.
Who acts: bullocks, We, you, nonsense · What happens: go on, be, hear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullocks, We, you, nonsense), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bullocks | det |
| 3 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 heard | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 true | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 true | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 true | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the bullocks | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | We | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | nonsense | true 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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