The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 98
“I am not afraid of Shere Khan, but Tabaqui is very cunning.”
Who acts: kites, Tabaqui · What happens: not be, be
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 (kites, Tabaqui), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Shere | case |
| 7 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | obl |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Shere | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cunning | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cunning | cc |
| 11 | Tabaqui | Tabaqui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cunning | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cunning | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 cunning | advmod |
| 14 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | kites = kite | of Shere; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Tabaqui | cunning 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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