The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 1
“I am not sure that they did not pull me into a hundred little bearlings,” said Baloo, gravely shaking one leg after the other.
Who acts: Baloo, they · What happens: not be, not pull, say, shake · To what, where: Baloo, hundred little bearlings, one leg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baloo, they), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pull | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pull | advmod |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 bearlings | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 bearlings | nummod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bearlings | amod |
| 16 | bearlings | bearling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pull | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shaking | punct |
| 22 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 23 shaking | advmod |
| 23 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 leg | nummod |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shaking | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 other | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shaking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Baloo | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pull in a quote | past · do-support | they | Baloo | hundred little bearlings | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Baloo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | Baloo not said here | one leg | after the other | gravely property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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