The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 60
I can see Dick’s lance to the right of my right eye, and I know I’m safe.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, know, be · To what, where: lance · 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), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Dick | case |
| 6 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 right | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 right | det |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eye | amod |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 right | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ’m | nsubj |
| 19 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ’m | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | I | Dick's lance | to the right of my right eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | safe property | vn exist-47.1 «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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