The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 180
This I, scouting alone, beheld, Once, twice and again!
Who acts: This · What happens: scout, behold
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 scouting | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 scouting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scouting | punct |
| 4 | scouting | scout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 scouting | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beheld | punct |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 scouting | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Once | punct |
| 9 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 beheld | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twice | punct |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 beheld | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 again | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 twice | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 scouting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scout | gerund | This | alone property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | behold | participle | This not said here | once, twice property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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