The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 87
It was then that Bagheera lifted up his dripping chin, and in despair gave the Snake’s Call for protection--“We be of one blood, ye and I”--for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute.
Who acts: rage, We, Panther, Kaa, Snake · What happens: be, drip, give, believe, turn, call · To what, where: Call, despair, tail · 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 (rage, We, Panther, Kaa), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lifted | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 lifted | mark |
| 5 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 lifted | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 chin | amod |
| 10 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Snake | det |
| 17 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Call | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Snake | case |
| 19 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 protection | case |
| 21 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Call | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 blood | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 blood | punct |
| 24 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 blood | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 blood | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 blood | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 blood | nummod |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ye | punct |
| 30 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 blood | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 I | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 ye | conj |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 ye | punct |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 believed | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 believed | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 believed | nsubj |
| 37 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 39 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 turned | aux |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 believed | ccomp |
| 42 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 minute | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 minute | det |
| 45 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 minute | amod |
| 46 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rage | then | lift property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drip | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | give | past | the Snake's Call | despair | for protection | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent call=Theme for protection=Asset | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | We | of one blood | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | believe | past | Panther | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | turn | past · perfect | Kaa | tail | minute | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 7 | call | the Snake | for protection | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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