The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 91
It is true that we only see out of our eyes, and we are not very clever.
Who acts: thrashing, we · What happens: be, see out, not be · To what, where: eyes
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 (thrashing, we), 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 | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clever | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clever | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 clever | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 clever | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 clever | advmod |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 true | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thrashing | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see out | present | we | our eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | we | clever property | 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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