The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 90
Now it is in my mind that I need the skin for my own use.
Who acts: hide, I, my · What happens: be, need, use · To what, where: mind
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 (hide, I, my), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mind | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mind | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 need | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 use | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 use | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 use | amod |
| 15 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hide | my mind | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | present | I | my mind | for my own use | tree rules | |||
| 3 | use | my | nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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