The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 68
“Keep thy hand on my shoulder,” Bagheera whispered.
Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: keep, whisper · To what, where: hand, shoulder · 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 (Bagheera), 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 10 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | infinitive | thy hand | my shoulder | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Location | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Bagheera | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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