The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 132
We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
Who acts: We, Pack · What happens: see, say, foster · To what, where: fostering, man cubs · 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 (We, Pack), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pack | det |
| 6 | Pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fostering | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fostering | det |
| 11 | fostering | fostering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cubs | case |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cubs | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 15 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fostering | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | future | the Pack | this fostering of man cubs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to fostering=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | foster | man cubs | nom fostering «communication 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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