The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 117
“I could not come before, Brother, but I think I heard thee call”--this was to Bagheera.
Who acts: I, thee, this · What happens: not come, think, hear, call, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thee, this), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brother | punct |
| 8 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 think | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 call | nsubj |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heard | xcomp |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bagheera | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Bagheera | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Bagheera | cop |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Bagheera | case |
| 22 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 think | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | could | I | Brother vocative; before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call in a quote | infinitive | thee | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | this | to Bagheera | tree rules |
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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