The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 96

“Here I am,” yapped Vixen, “under the gun tail with my man.

Who acts: troop horse · What happens: be, yap · To what, where: Vixen, gun tail · 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 (troop horse), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 yapped	parataxis
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
7	yapped	yap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yapped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tail	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tail	punct
11	under	under	ADP	_	14 tail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tail	det
13	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	compound
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yapped	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 man	nmod:poss
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 yapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the troop horse = horse					here property	tree rules
2	yap	past		Vixen		the gun tail with my man			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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