The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 137

But art thou sure, O my Bagheera”--he slipped his arm around the splendid neck and looked deep into the big eyes--“art thou sure that all this is Shere Khan’s doing?”

Who acts: Bagheera, this, Shere · What happens: slip, look, be, do · To what, where: arm, splendid neck, big eyes

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 (Bagheera, this, Shere), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 art	cc
2	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 art	obj
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 art	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Bagheera	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	8 Bagheera	discourse
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Bagheera	nmod:poss
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sure	parataxis
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Bagheera	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slipped	nsubj
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 art	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arm	nmod:poss
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obj
15	around	around	ADP	_	18 neck	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 neck	amod
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
21	deep	deep	ADV	_	20 looked	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eyes	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyes	amod
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 looked	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 art	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 art	punct
28	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	parataxis
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 art	obj
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 art	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 doing	mark
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 this	det:predet
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 Shere	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 Shere	cop
35	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 doing	nsubj
36	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Shere	flat
37	’s	's	PART	_	35 Shere	case
38	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sure	ccomp
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 art	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip in a quote	past	Bagheera	Bagheera's arm	the splendid neck		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	look in a quote	past	Bagheera not said here		the big eyes	deep property	tree rules
3	is	present	this			's Shere	tree rules
4	do	gerund	Shere				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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