The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 109
Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
Who acts: Shere, Father · What happens: have, jump, say, be, burn, pain · To what, where: campfire, pain, burned feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shere, Father), 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 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shere | acl |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 campfire | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woodcutter | det |
| 7 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 campfire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 woodcutter | case |
| 9 | campfire | campfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 12 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Father | flat |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 furious | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 furious | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 furious | cop |
| 19 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pain | det |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 furious | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 feet | amod |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pain | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Shere not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | Shere | a woodcutter's campfire | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at campfire=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the pain of Father's burned feet | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | pain | Father's burned feet | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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