The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 34
He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.”
Who acts: Tabaqui · What happens: hunt, tell · To what, where: hills, me · 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 (Tabaqui), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunt | aux |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hills | det |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moon | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moon | amod |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hunt | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunt | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | future | Tabaqui | this hills | for the next moon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among hill=Location for moon=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | Tabaqui | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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