The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 116
Ikki is full of stories half heard and very badly told.”
Who acts: Ikki · What happens: be, hear, tell · 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 (Ikki), 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 | Ikki | Ikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 badly | advmod |
| 10 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 told | advmod |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 full | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ikki | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Ikki not said here | of stories; half property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | Ikki not said here | badly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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