The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 68
As I was saying, it wasn’t Dick’s fault.
Who acts: I, instant · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: 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 (I, instant), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fault | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | cop |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fault | advmod |
| 9 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Dick | case |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | instant | 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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