The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 15
It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk.
Who acts: shadow, panther markings, watered silk · What happens: be, show up, water, pattern · To what, where: Bagheera, certain lights
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 (shadow, panther markings, watered silk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Bagheera | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Bagheera | cop |
| 3 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Panther | det |
| 5 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Panther | compound |
| 6 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bagheera | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 black | punct |
| 8 | inky | inky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 black | amod |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bagheera | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 over | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 black | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 markings | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 markings | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 markings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 markings | det |
| 16 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 markings | compound |
| 17 | markings | marking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Bagheera | appos |
| 18 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 markings | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 showing | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lights | case |
| 21 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lights | amod |
| 22 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 showing | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 pattern | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pattern | det |
| 25 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lights | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 silk | case |
| 27 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 silk | amod |
| 28 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pattern | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bagheera | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | shadow | Bagheera | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show up | gerund | the panther markings not said here | certain lights like the pattern of watered silk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 3 | water | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pattern | watered silk | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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