The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 105
There is an old war between this lame tiger and myself--a very old war, and--I have won.”
Who acts: old war, I · What happens: be, win
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old war, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 war | amod |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 tiger | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tiger | det |
| 8 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tiger | amod |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 war | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 myself | cc |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 tiger | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 war | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 war | amod |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tiger | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 won | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 won | cc |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 won | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 won | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 won | aux |
| 22 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 is | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a old war between this lame tiger and a old war | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | win | present · perfect | I | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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