The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 137
Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: ebb · To what, where: flank
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 (Brother), 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 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ebbs | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brother | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ebbs | nsubj |
| 4 | ebbs | ebb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 flank | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flank | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flank | flank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ebbs | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 side | cc |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flank | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ebbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ebb | present | Brother | my flank and side | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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