The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 117

Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two-- Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.

Who acts: we, deeds · What happens: sit, think, know, mean, do, someth · To what, where: Dreaming, branchy row, beautiful things

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 (we, deeds), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sit	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
6	branchy	branchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 row	amod
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Thinking	punct
9	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sit	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Thinking	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 things	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Dreaming	punct
16	Dreaming	dreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 deeds	case
18	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Dreaming	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 mean	nsubj
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 mean	nsubj
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 deeds	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mean	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 minute	punct
25	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 minute	nsubj
26	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 minute	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 minute	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 minute	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 minute	det
30	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Dreaming	nmod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 two	cc
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 minute	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Something	punct
34	Something	someth	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sit	advcl
35	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Something	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wise	cc
37	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 noble	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 good	cc
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 noble	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Done	punct
41	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sit	parataxis
42	by	by	SCONJ	_	44 wishing	mark
43	merely	merely	ADV	_	44 wishing	advmod
44	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 Done	advcl
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 could	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 wishing	aux
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	we	Dreaming of deeds in a complete minute	a branchy row; here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	we not said here			of beautiful things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	we	beautiful things not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	mean	present	deeds				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	deeds not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	someth	gerund	we not said here			noble property	tree rules
7	do	participle					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	wish	could				merely property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	dream		deeds			in a complete minute	nom dreaming «cognition intransitive»: of=agent in=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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