The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 68
“We all seem to be affected in various ways,” he went on, blowing his nose.
Who acts: We, Billy · What happens: seem, affect, go on, blow · To what, where: various ways, nose · 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 (We, Billy), 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 seem | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 seem | advmod |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 affected | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 affected | aux:pass |
| 7 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 affected | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 affected | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 affected | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 affected | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blowing | punct |
| 17 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blowing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | We | all property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | affect in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | We not said here | various ways | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | Billy | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | Billy not said here | Billy's nose | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
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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