The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 97
You big, blundering beast of a camel you, you upset our tent.
Who acts: you · What happens: blunder, upset · To what, where: tent
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 (you), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 big | nsubj |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blundering | punct |
| 4 | blundering | blunder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 big | advcl |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 you | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 camel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 camel | det |
| 8 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beast | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 blundering | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 upset | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 upset | nsubj |
| 12 | upset | upset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 big | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tent | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 upset | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blunder | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | upset | present | you | our tent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tent=Experiencer |
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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