The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 21
No. That is why I teach him these things, and that is why I hit him, very softly, when he forgets.”
Who acts: No., I, that, Mowgli · What happens: be, teach, hit, forget · To what, where: things, Mowgli
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 (No., I, that, Mowgli), 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 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 why | nsubj |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | nsubj |
| 6 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | advcl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | obj |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teach | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 why | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 why | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 why | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 why | cop |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 why | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 why | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 softly | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 softly | advmod |
| 20 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 16 hit | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgets | punct |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 forgets | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgets | nsubj |
| 24 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | advcl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgets | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | No. | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | I | this things | Mowgli | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hit | past | I | Mowgli | softly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | forget | present | Mowgli | 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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