The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 35
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
Who acts: Shere, tiger · What happens: be, live · To what, where: tiger, Waingunga River
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 (Shere, tiger), 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 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tiger | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiger | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tiger | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiger | acl:relcl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 River | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 River | det |
| 10 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 River | compound |
| 11 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 miles | punct |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 miles | nummod |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tiger | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 miles | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Shere | the tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the tiger | the Waingunga River | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location |
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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