The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 189
I can see inside my head what will happen when a shell bursts, and you bullocks can’t.”
Who acts: I, head, shell · What happens: see, happen, burst · 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 (I, head, shell), 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 | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 bursts | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shell | det |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bursts | nsubj |
| 13 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ca | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ca | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ca | nsubj |
| 17 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 ca | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | future | my head | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burst | present | a shell | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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