The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 23
“I have--have hunted these too in my time,” gasped Akela in the dust.
What happens: hunt, gasp · To what, where: these, Akela, dust · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 6 hunted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunted | aux |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunted | aux |
| 6 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 gasped | parataxis |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hunted | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 hunted | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 time | nmod:poss |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunted | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hunted | punct |
| 14 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gasped | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dust | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dust | det |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gasped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt in a quote | present · perfect | these | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gasp | past | Akela | the dust | 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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