The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 43
“I’m not above stampeding myself, for the fun of the thing, when I haven’t been out for a day or two.
Who acts: camp · What happens: not stampede, have, not be · To what, where: camp
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 (camp), 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 | _ | 6 stampeding | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stampeding | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stampeding | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stampeding | advmod |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 stampeding | mark |
| 6 | stampeding | stampede | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 stampeding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fun | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fun | det |
| 11 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stampeding | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fun | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 have | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stampeding | conj |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 day | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 day | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 been | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 two | cc |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stampeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stampede in a quote | present · progressive | camp | camp | for the fun of the thing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | camp | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | participle | for a day | tree rules |
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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