The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 43
They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
Who acts: villagers, Father, we · What happens: scour, be, run, set · To what, where: jungle, grass
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 (villagers, Father, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scour | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scour | aux |
| 3 | scour | scour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jungle | det |
| 5 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scour | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jungle | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 away | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 away | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 away | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 scour | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 run | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 children | cc |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 we | conj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 scour | conj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 set | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grass | det |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 run | advcl |
| 26 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 set | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | future | villagers = villager | the jungle | for Father | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent jungle=Location for he=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | Father | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | must | we | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | present · passive | the grass | alight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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