The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 192
Somebody’s pack has slid from his back, Wish it were only mine!
Who acts: pack · What happens: slide, wish, be · To what, where: pack, back, mine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pack), 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 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 pack | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Somebody | case |
| 3 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slid | aux |
| 5 | slid | slide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wish | punct |
| 10 | Wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 slid | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mine | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mine | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 mine | advmod |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Wish | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | present · perfect · passive | Somebody's pack | Sha’'s back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from back=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | wish | infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | pack | mine | tree rules |
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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