The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 65
He is not of our tribe, being footless--and with most evil eyes,” said Bagheera.
Who acts: whisper, Bagheera · What happens: not be, be, say · 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 (whisper, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tribe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tribe | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tribe | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tribe | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 footless | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 footless | cop |
| 9 | footless | footless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tribe | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 eyes | amod |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tribe | parataxis |
| 19 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tribe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | whisper | of our tribe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | whisper not said here | footless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Bagheera | with most evil eyes | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with eye=Manner |
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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