The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 4
Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives--Bagheera and I.”
Who acts: we, I · What happens: owe, think · To what, where: thee, lives
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 (we, I), 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 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 owe | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kaa | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 owe | nsubj |
| 4 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 owe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 owe | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lives | punct |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 think | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bagheera | punct |
| 13 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 I. | cc |
| 15 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bagheera | conj |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | we | thee | Kaa vocative | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | our lives | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot life=Theme |
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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