The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 186
“That’s another way of fighting, I suppose?” said Billy, who was recovering his spirits.
Who acts: That, way, I, Billy · What happens: be, fight, suppose, say, recover · To what, where: way, spirits · 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 (That, way, I, Billy), 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 | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 fighting | mark |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 suppose | nsubj |
| 10 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 recovering | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recovering | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 recovering | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 recovering | aux |
| 18 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 recovering | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | another way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | gerund | another way not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | recover | past · progressive | Billy | Billy's spirits | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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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