The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 112
“Is Bagheera,” said the Black Panther, and his jaws shut with a snap, for he did not believe in being humble.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: be, say, not believe · To what, where: Bagheera · 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 (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Bagheera | cop |
| 3 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bagheera | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bagheera | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Panther | det |
| 8 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Panther | compound |
| 9 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shut | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 14 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 snap | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 snap | det |
| 17 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 believe | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 believe | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 believe | advmod |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 humble | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 humble | cop |
| 26 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 believe | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Bagheera | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not believe | past · do-support | Bagheera | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | humble 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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