The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 157

Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.

Who acts: mother · What happens: push, be, not overlook · To what, where: cub, moonlight, little

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 (mother), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 push	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 push	aux
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cub	nmod:poss
7	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 out	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	5 push	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 moonlight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moonlight	det
12	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 sure	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 push	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 overlooked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 overlooked	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 overlooked	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 overlooked	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 overlooked	aux:pass
21	overlooked	overlook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sure	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 push	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	would	a mother	Mother's cub	the moonlight	out, sometimes property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cub=Theme into moonlight=Destination
2	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
3	not overlook	past · perfect · passive		little			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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