The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 23
“Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank.
Who acts: Others · What happens: say, lick, look, round · To what, where: lips, tank · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Others), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 also | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 also | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licking | punct |
| 9 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 licking | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looking | cc |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 licking | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 dead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dead | det |
| 16 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dead | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 monkey | punct |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 terrace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 terrace | det |
| 21 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 round | cc |
| 23 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 looking | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tank | det |
| 25 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 round | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | Others not said here | other's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Others not said here | on the terrace; at the monkey dead | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dead=Theme | ||||
| 4 | round | infinitive | Others not said here | the tank | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=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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