The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 63
“Well, I got one cut across the chest once, but that wasn’t Dick’s fault--”
Who acts: young mule, that · What happens: get, not be · To what, where: one cut, chest, fault · 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 (young mule, that), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fault | csubj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 cut | nummod |
| 7 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 chest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 got | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fault | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fault | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fault | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fault | cop |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fault | advmod |
| 17 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fault | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Dick | case |
| 19 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 fault | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | the young mule = mule | one cut | the chest | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cut=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | that | Dick's fault | 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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