The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 115
That matter is with me; and that we may see the matter more plainly, I, the man, have brought here a little of the Red Flower which ye, dogs, fear.”
Who acts: we · What happens: be, see, bring · To what, where: matter, I
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 me | appos |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 me | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 brought | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 plainly | advmod |
| 15 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 I | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 me | parataxis |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 brought | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Flower | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Flower | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Flower | det |
| 29 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Flower | flat |
| 30 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ye | nsubj |
| 32 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 Flower | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dogs | punct |
| 34 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Flower | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fear | punct |
| 36 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Flower | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | may | we | the matter | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect · passive | I | here | of the little Red Flower and dogs | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of flower=Initial_Location |
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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