The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 77
The old Bear had done his best, but he could not come before.
Who acts: old Bear, Bear · What happens: do, not come · To what, where: best
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 (old Bear, Bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bear | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bear | amod |
| 3 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 done | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | conj |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the old Bear | Bear's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not come | could | Bear | before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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