The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 95
“I--I--I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.”
Who acts: back · What happens: fight, climb, run · To what, where: little, climbing way, way
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 (back), 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 | _ | 8 fought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fought | aux |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 way | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 way | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 16 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 running | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 running | mark |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 way | conj |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 running | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | present · perfect | back | a little | that climbing way | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | climb in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run in a quote | gerund | back not said here | way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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