The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 174
“It is half a night’s journey--at full speed,” said Bagheera, and Baloo looked very serious.
Who acts: animal, journey, Baloo · What happens: be, say, look · To what, where: journey · 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 (animal, journey, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 journey | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 journey | cop |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 8 journey | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 night | case |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 speed | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 journey | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 journey | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 19 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 serious | advmod |
| 22 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looked | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | animal | night's journey and full speed | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | night's journey and full speed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Baloo | serious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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