The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 101

“Footless, yellow earth-worm,” said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something.

Who acts: Footless yellow earth worm, worm · What happens: say, try, remember · To what, where: whiskers, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Footless yellow earth worm, worm), 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	_	7 worm	punct
2	Footless	footless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worm	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Footless	punct
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worm	amod
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worm	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 earth	punct
7	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worm	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 worm	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 whiskers	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 whiskers	nmod:poss
14	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trying	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 trying	mark
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 trying	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 trying	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 trying	aux
20	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 remember	mark
22	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 remember	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Footless yellow earth worm		Bagheera's whiskers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	try	past · progressive	worm			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	remember not said to happen	to-infinitive	worm not said here	something		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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