The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 77
He is always a little blind after he has changed his skin, and very quick to strike.”
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: be, change, strike · To what, where: skin
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 (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 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 blind | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blind | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 changed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 blind | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 quick | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 quick | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 quick | advmod |
| 16 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blind | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 strike | mark |
| 18 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 quick | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bagheera | a little obl:unmarked; always, blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect | Bagheera | Bagheera's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | Bagheera not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | Bagheera not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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