The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 85
I lead the battery when it comes to that sort of climbing.”
Who acts: I, mile · What happens: lead, come, sort · To what, where: battery, sort, climbing
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, mile), 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 | 2 lead | nsubj |
| 2 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battery | det |
| 4 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lead | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 comes | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lead | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sort | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 climbing | case |
| 12 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lead | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | I | the battery | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | mile | that sort of climbing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sort=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sort | climbing | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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