The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 171
For, listen, child of man, I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.”
Who acts: I · What happens: listen, love · To what, where: child, thee, cubs
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 listen | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 loved | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listen | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 child | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 loved | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 loved | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 loved | mark |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 loved | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loved | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | I not said here | child of man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love | past | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | past | I | my cubs | ever | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cub=Stimulus |
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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