The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 185
My battery captain called me a Pachydermatous Anachronism the other day.”
Who acts: battery captain · What happens: call · To what, where: me · 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 (battery captain), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 captain | nmod:poss |
| 2 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captain | compound |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Anachronism | det |
| 7 | Pachydermatous | Pachydermatous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Anachronism | compound |
| 8 | Anachronism | Anachronism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | My battery captain | me | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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