The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 111
“Forbidden,” said Bagheera, “but I still think Baloo should have warned thee against them.”
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: forbid, say, think, warn · To what, where: Baloo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. 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 | _ | 2 Forbidden | punct |
| 2 | Forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forbidden | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forbidden | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 think | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 think | advmod |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 warned | parataxis |
| 13 | Baloo | baloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 warned | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warned | aux |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 warned | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid in a quote | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Bagheera | still | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn in a quote | should · perfect · passive | Baloo | against People | tree rules |
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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