The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 187
“You don’t know what that means, of course, but I do.
Who acts: You, that, bullocks · What happens: not know, mean, do · 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 (You, that, bullocks), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 means | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 means | advmod |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | the bullocks = bullock | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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