The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 183
“By the Broken Lock that freed me,” said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, “thou art no slow goer!”
Who acts: Broken Lock, Bagheera, twilight · What happens: break, free, say, fall · To what, where: Bagheera · 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 (Broken Lock, Bagheera, twilight), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 Lock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lock | det |
| 4 | Broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Lock | amod |
| 5 | Lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 freed | nsubj |
| 7 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lock | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 freed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lock | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lock | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fallen | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 fallen | mark |
| 15 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fallen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fallen | aux |
| 17 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 Bagheera | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 art | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 art | punct |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 art | nsubj |
| 21 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 goer | det |
| 23 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 goer | amod |
| 24 | goer | goer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 art | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | free in a quote | past | the Broken Lock | Bagheera | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | by the Broken Lock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | twilight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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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