The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 86
“Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
Who acts: Tabaqui, Ho ho · What happens: come, be, not fit, dig · To what, where: Ho ho, cub, pig nuts
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 (Tabaqui, Ho ho), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | Tabaqui | Tabaqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 talk | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 talk | det |
| 11 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 talk | amod |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 cub | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 cub | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cub | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cub | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 man | case |
| 20 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fit | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fit | advmod |
| 23 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cub | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 dig | mark |
| 25 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fit | xcomp |
| 26 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nuts | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 pig | punct |
| 28 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dig | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Tabaqui | Ho ho = ho | with some rude talk; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Ho ho = ho | a naked man's cub | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fit in a quote | infinitive | Ho ho = ho not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dig in a quote | to-infinitive | Ho ho = ho not said here | pig nuts | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
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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