The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 43
“Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.”
Who acts: you, Bagheera, naked thing, thee, deep bay · What happens: roar, say, come, make, know · To what, where: whiskers, thee, tune, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Bagheera, naked thing, thee), 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 | _ | 4 roar | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 roar | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | roar | roar | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 roar | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roar | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 roar | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 roar | conj |
| 9 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whiskers | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 whiskers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roar | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 roar | conj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 make | advmod |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 thing | det |
| 23 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | advcl |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 tune | case |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 tune | det |
| 31 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roar | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 know | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tune | conj |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 know | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nothing | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 roar | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 roar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Bagheera's whiskers | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under whisker=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | you not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | this naked thing | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roar in a quote | infinitive | thee not said here | another tune | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tune=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | Akela's deep bay = bay | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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