The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 113
“They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer.
Who acts: people · What happens: take · To what, where: orders, Head
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 (people), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Head | det |
| 7 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Pack | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pack | det |
| 10 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Head | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 killer | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 killer | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 killer | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 killer | det |
| 16 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 killer | amod |
| 17 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killer | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cattle | punct |
| 19 | killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | people | orders | the Head of the Pack | from any striped cattle killer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent order=Theme from head=Initial_Location |
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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