The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 40

“He has been lame in one foot from his birth.

Who acts: Father · What happens: be · To what, where: lame, one foot

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 (Father), 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	_	5 lame	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lame	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lame	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 lame	cop
5	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 foot	nummod
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lame	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 birth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birth	nmod:poss
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	Father	lame		one foot from Father's birth			tree rules

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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