The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 38
They may have dropped him already, being tired of carrying him.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: drop, be, carry · To what, where: Whoo
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dropped | aux |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | obj |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tired | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tired | cop |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dropped | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | mark |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tired | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carrying | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | may · perfect | Baloo | Whoo | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | tired property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Whoo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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