The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 92
“I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.”
Who acts: Mowgli, stomach · What happens: be · To what, where: evil man cub
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 (Mowgli, stomach), 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 | _ | 8 cub | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cub | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cub | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cub | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cub | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cub | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sad | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sad | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sad | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sad | cop |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cub | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sad | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cub | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Mowgli | a evil man cub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my stomach | in Mowgli; sad property | 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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