The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 34
“You get laughed at by gun-bullocks.
Who acts: gun bullocks · What happens: laugh · To what, where: You
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 (gun 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 | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | aux:pass |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 laughed | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bullocks | case |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bullocks | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 gun | punct |
| 9 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laughed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present · passive | gun bullocks | You | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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