The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 20
We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee--the madness--and run.
Who acts: We, rags · What happens: call, run · To what, where: creature · 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, rags), 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 | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | hydrophobia | hydrophobia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 call | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | dewanee | dewanee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | xcomp |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 madness | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 madness | det |
| 13 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dewanee | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 call | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | We | creature | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | call | present | rags = rag | creature | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | We not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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