The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 30
“Very soft is his skin, and he is not unlike the Bandar-log.
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: soft skin
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 (Kaa), 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 skin | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soft | advmod |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 skin | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 skin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 log | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 log | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 log | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 log | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 log | advmod |
| 12 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 16 log | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 log | det |
| 14 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 log | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bandar | punct |
| 16 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Kaa's soft skin and the Bandar log | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Kaa | unlike the Bandar log | tree rules |
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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