The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 89
For, remember, Mowgli, I, who am the Black Panther, was forced to call upon Kaa for protection, and Baloo and I were both made stupid as little birds by the Hunger Dance.
Who acts: you, Mowgli, Hunger Dance · What happens: remember, be, force, call, make · To what, where: Black Panther, Mowgli, Baloo · 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 (you, Mowgli, Hunger Dance), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 remember | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 5 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 I | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Mowgli | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Panther | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 Panther | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Panther | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Panther | det |
| 12 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | compound |
| 13 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mowgli | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mowgli | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forced | aux:pass |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remember | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 call | mark |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 Kaa | case |
| 20 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 protection | case |
| 22 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 25 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 I | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Baloo | conj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | both | both | ADV | _ | 30 made | advmod |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 forced | conj |
| 31 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 made | xcomp |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 birds | case |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 birds | amod |
| 34 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stupid | obl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 Dance | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dance | det |
| 37 | Hunger | Hunger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Dance | compound |
| 38 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Mowgli and the Black Panther | the Black Panther | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | Mowgli and the Black Panther | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | call | to-infinitive | Mowgli and the Black Panther not said here | upon Kaa; for protection | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for protection=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | the Hunger Dance | Baloo | both, stupid property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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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