The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 51
What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself up like Ikki the Porcupine, and howled?”
Who acts: jungle, I, Black Panther · What happens: think, panther, curl up, howl · To what, where: myself · 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 (jungle, I, Black Panther), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jungle | det |
| 4 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 Panther | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Panther | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Panther | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Panther | det |
| 10 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Panther | compound |
| 11 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 curled | punct |
| 13 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Panther | acl |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 curled | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 curled | compound:prt |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 Ikki | case |
| 17 | Ikki | Ikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 curled | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Porcupine | det |
| 19 | Porcupine | Porcupine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ikki | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 howled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 howled | cc |
| 22 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 howled | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | the jungle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | panther a condition, not said to happen | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | curl up | participle | the Black Panther not said here | myself | like Ikki | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | howl | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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