The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 20
I am tired to-night,--very tired with new things, Gray Brother,--but bring me the news always.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: news, me
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tired | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 tired | advmod |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tired | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Gray | punct |
| 15 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 things | appos |
| 16 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gray | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 things | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tired | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 news | det |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 bring | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | night | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | I not said here | with new things | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | the news | me | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination news=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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