The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 4
The dark never hurt anybody yet.”
Who acts: dark · What happens: not hurt · To what, where: anybody
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 (dark), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dark | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | past | the dark | anybody | yet | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Patient |
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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