The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 45
Not one small wolfling has ever come back to thank old Baloo for his teachings.
Who acts: one small wolfling, wolfling · What happens: come back, thank, teach · To what, where: old Baloo
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 (one small wolfling, wolfling), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wolfling | nummod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wolfling | amod |
| 4 | wolfling | wolfling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 come | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 thank | mark |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Baloo | amod |
| 12 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 teachings | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teachings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | one small wolfling | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | one small wolfling not said here | old Baloo | for wolfling's teachings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent baloo=Theme for teaching=Attribute | |||
| 3 | teach | wolfling | nom teaching «act 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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