The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 91
“Or for a pledge?” said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under his lip.
Who acts: pledge, white teeth · What happens: say, bare · To what, where: lip · 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 (pledge, white teeth), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 pledge | cc |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pledge | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pledge | det |
| 5 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pledge | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pledge | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bared | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 teeth | amod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bared | nsubj |
| 14 | bared | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 lip | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lip | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a pledge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bare | past | Bagheera's white teeth | Bagheera's lip | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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