The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 49
“At least he gave me all the Words correctly a little time ago,” said Bagheera impatiently.
Who acts: Mowgli, Bagheera · What happens: give, say · To what, where: Words, Bagheera, least · 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 (Mowgli, Bagheera), 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 | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 gave | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Words | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Words | det |
| 9 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 13 time | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Words | appos |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 time | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | Mowgli | all Words | Bagheera | least | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme at least=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bagheera | impatiently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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