The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 116
“Not even I can look thee between the eyes, and I was born among men, and I love thee, Little Brother.
Who acts: Panther · What happens: look, bear, love · To what, where: thee, Panther
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Panther), 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 | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 even | advmod |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 look | obj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 born | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 born | aux:pass |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 look | conj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 born | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 love | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 love | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 love | nsubj |
| 21 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | parataxis |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 love | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Brother | punct |
| 24 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Brother | amod |
| 25 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 love | vocative |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | can | Panther | thee | between the eyes | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bear in a quote | past · passive | Panther | among men | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | Panther | thee | Little Brother vocative | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
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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