The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 115
“I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe.
Who acts: Bagheera, quills · What happens: hear, make, enter, not believe · To what, where: news, Ikki, man thing, wolf pack
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, quills), 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 | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Ikki | case |
| 7 | Ikki | Ikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 quills | nmod:poss |
| 10 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | presumptuous | presumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 presumptuous | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thing | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thing | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presumptuous | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entered | aux:pass |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 pack | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pack | det |
| 25 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pack | compound |
| 26 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 believe | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 believe | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 believe | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 believe | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 believe | advmod |
| 32 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | Bagheera | some news | Ikki | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Topic from ikki=Source | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | Ikki's quills | news | presumptuous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 3 | enter in a quote | past · passive | a man thing | a wolf pack | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not believe in a quote | past · do-support | Bagheera | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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