The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 20
“I am sore, hungry, and not a little bruised.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: be, not bruise · To what, where: little
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), 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 sore | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sore | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | cop |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hungry | punct |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sore | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bruised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bruised | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bruised | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bruised | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sore | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Baloo | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Baloo not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not bruise in a quote | participle | Baloo not said here | a little | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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