The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 163
“To be bitten by wolves, poor child!
Who acts: wolves · What happens: bite
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 (wolves), 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 | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 bitten | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bitten | aux:pass |
| 4 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wolves | case |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bitten | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wolves | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | wolves and poor child | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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