The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 23
Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.”
Who acts: Baloo, that · What happens: beat, be, chase, rise · To what, where: me, leaves
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 (Baloo, that), 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 | Baloo | baloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 beat | advmod |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 better | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 better | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | cop |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 beat | parataxis |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 chasing | mark |
| 12 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rose | advcl |
| 13 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chasing | xcomp |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | advcl |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rose | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 log | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 log | det |
| 18 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 log | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bandar | punct |
| 20 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | future | Baloo | me | surely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | silly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | that not said here | leaves | with the Bandar log | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=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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