The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 59

Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,” said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, “it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: `To each his own fear’; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.

Who acts: Baloo, Fool, Hathi · What happens: dig, be, say, uncoil, log, fear · To what, where: root digging fool, fat · 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 (Baloo, Fool, Hathi), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 brown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brown	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brown	punct
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fool	punct
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fool	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 root	punct
9	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fool	amod
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brown	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 am	obj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 am	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fool	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brown	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 brown	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 uncoiling	punct
19	uncoiling	uncoil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 uncoiling	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 jerk	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 jerk	det
23	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 uncoiling	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 true	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 true	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 true	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 uncoiling	parataxis
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 says	obj
30	Hathi	Hathi	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 says	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Elephant	det
32	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	33 Elephant	flat
33	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Hathi	appos
34	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 true	advcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 fear	punct
36	`	`	PUNCT	_	41 fear	punct
37	To	to	ADP	_	38 each	case
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 fear	obl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fear	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fear	amod
41	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 says	ccomp
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 fear	punct
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 log	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 log	cc
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 log	nsubj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 log	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 log	det
48	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 log	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 Bandar	punct
50	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 fear	punct
52	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 log	conj
53	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 fear	appos
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Snake	det
55	Rock	Rock	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Snake	compound
56	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Kaa	appos
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		root digging fool		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Baloo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	uncoil in a quote	gerund	Baloo not said here	fat	with a jerk	tree rules
5	is	present	Fool		true property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	Hathi			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	log		Baloo			tree rules
8	fear		Hathi			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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