The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 140
Toward the sunset, I believe,” said Baloo.
Who acts: I, Baloo · What happens: believe, say · 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 (I, Baloo), 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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 3 sunset | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sunset | det |
| 3 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sunset | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 10 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | sunset | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Baloo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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