The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 88
The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for,” said Bagheera in his gentlest voice.
Who acts: worth, honor, bull, Bagheera · What happens: be, fight, say, honor · To what, where: something, gentlest voice · 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 (worth, honor, bull, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 worth | det |
| 2 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 little | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bull | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bull | det |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worth | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 little | cop |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 something | cc |
| 10 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 honor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Bagheera | case |
| 12 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 something | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 something | cop |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 little | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fight | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fight | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fight | aux |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 fight | advmod |
| 19 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fight | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fight | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fight | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fight | acl |
| 24 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 voice | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 voice | nmod:poss |
| 27 | gentlest | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 voice | amod |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the worth of a bull | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Bagheera's honor | something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | future | bull | perhaps property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Bagheera | bull's gentlest voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 5 | honor | Bagheera | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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