The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 74
“Whoof!” said Baloo, when he stood under the still trees again.
Who acts: Whoof, Baloo · What happens: say, stand · To what, where: trees · 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 (Whoof, 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 | _ | 2 Whoof | punct |
| 2 | Whoof | whoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whoof | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whoof | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stood | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 trees | advmod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Whoof | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Baloo | the trees | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
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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