The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 111

“Indeed,” Baloo began, “I am no more than the old and sometimes very foolish Teacher of the Law to the Seeonee wolf-cubs, and Bagheera here--”

Who acts: Baloo, Kaa · What happens: begin, not be

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 (Baloo, Kaa), 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	_	6 began	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
5	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 more	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 more	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 began	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 old	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 old	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 more	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Teacher	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 Teacher	advmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 foolish	advmod
19	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Teacher	amod
20	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 old	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Law	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Law	det
23	Law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Teacher	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	29 cubs	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cubs	det
26	Seeonee	Seeonee	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cubs	compound
27	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cubs	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wolf	punct
29	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Law	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 here	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 here	cc
32	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 here	nsubj
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	parataxis
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 here	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Baloo					indeed property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not is in a quote	present	Kaa					than the old and foolish Teacher of the Law to the Seeonee wolf cubs; more property	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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