The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 50

“Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets.

Who acts: Ye · What happens: hear · To what, where: Shere, thickets

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 (Ye), 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	_	4 hear	punct
2	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 hear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
6	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Shere	flat
7	below	below	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 thickets	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thickets	det
10	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	can	Ye	Shere		the thickets		below property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shere=Stimulus

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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