The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 138
“By the Broken Lock that freed me, I am sure, Little Brother.”
Who acts: Broken Lock, Mowgli · What happens: break, free, be · To what, where: Mowgli
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 (Broken Lock, Mowgli), 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 | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 Lock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lock | det |
| 4 | Broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Lock | amod |
| 5 | Lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sure | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 freed | nsubj |
| 7 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lock | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 freed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lock | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brother | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Brother | amod |
| 15 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sure | vocative |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | free in a quote | past | the Broken Lock | Mowgli | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Mowgli | by the Broken Lock; Little Brother vocative; sure property | 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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