The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 31
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
Who acts: I, ye, Baloo · What happens: add, kill, accept, accord, word · To what, where: one bull, fat one, cub
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 (I, ye, Baloo), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 add | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 3 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Baloo | case |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 add | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 add | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 add | aux |
| 8 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 bull | nummod |
| 10 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 add | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 add | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 17 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 18 killed | advmod |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 one | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mile | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 mile | advmod |
| 21 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 23 mile | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mile | det |
| 23 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 here | case |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 mile | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 accept | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 accept | mark |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 accept | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 accept | aux |
| 30 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 add | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cub | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 man | case |
| 34 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 accept | obj |
| 35 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 Law | case |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 according | fixed |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Law | det |
| 38 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 accept | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | future | I | one bull | now | to Baloo's word | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient to word=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | kill | participle | a fat one not said here | newly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | accept a condition, not said to happen | future | ye | the man's cub | accord the Law | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | Baloo | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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