The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 33
“Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds.
What happens: shift · To what, where: Shere
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: 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 | _ | 10 shifted | punct |
| 2 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shere | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 One | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 One | det |
| 6 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 One | amod |
| 7 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shere | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shere | punct |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shifted | aux |
| 10 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grounds | compound |
| 13 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 shifted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shift in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Shere and the Big One | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient grounds=Extent |
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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