The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 118
“I--I may have cried out in the battle,” Bagheera answered.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: cry out, answer · To what, where: battle · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | aux |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 answered | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 battle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 14 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express in a quote | may · perfect | Bagheera | the battle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in battle=Location | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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