The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 97
“Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter,” said Baloo.
Who acts: great weight, Baloo · What happens: have, do, say · To what, where: something · 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 (great weight, Baloo), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 6 has | advmod |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 weight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weight | amod |
| 5 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | thy great weight | something | maybe property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | thy great weight not said here | something not said here | with the matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Baloo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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