The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 12
“Bagheera spoke truth,” he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: speak, pant, nestle down · To what, where: truth, cattle fodder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bagheera), 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 | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 2 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 panted | advcl |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 panted | nsubj |
| 8 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nestled | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 nestled | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nestled | nsubj |
| 12 | nestled | nestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 panted | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 nestled | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fodder | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fodder | det |
| 16 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fodder | compound |
| 17 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nestled | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nestled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 window | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 panted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | Bagheera | truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pant | past | Bagheera | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nestle down | past | Bagheera | some cattle fodder | by the window of a hut | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in fodder=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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