The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 77
It was one very warm day that a new notion came to Bagheera--born of something that he had heard.
Who acts: blow, new notion · What happens: be, come, bear, hear · To what, where: one warm day, Bagheera
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 (blow, new notion), 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 | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 notion | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 notion | amod |
| 10 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Bagheera | case |
| 13 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 day | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 something | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 born | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 something | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | blow | one warm day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a new notion | Bagheera | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagheera=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | blow not said here | of something | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect · passive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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