The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 166
By my honor, Messua, he is not unlike thy boy that was taken by the tiger.”
Who acts: Arre, tiger, my · What happens: not be, take, honor · To what, where: unlike boy
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 (Arre, tiger, my), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 honor | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 honor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Messua | punct |
| 5 | Messua | Messua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 honor | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 honor | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boy | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boy | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 boy | advmod |
| 10 | unlike | unlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 boy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 tiger | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Arre | thy unlike boy | by my honor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the tiger | thy unlike boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | honor | my | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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