The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 166
I could have done no less,” and Rann circled up again to his roost.
Who acts: I, Rann · What happens: do, circle up
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, Rann), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 less | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 done | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 less | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 circled | cc |
| 10 | Rann | Rann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 circled | nsubj |
| 11 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 circled | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 circled | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 roost | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 roost | nmod:poss |
| 16 | roost | roost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 circled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could · perfect | I | less property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | circle up in a quote | past | Rann | again | to Rann's roost | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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