The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 7
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
Who acts: Rann, Mang, herds · What happens: bring, set, be, loose · To what, where: we, byre
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 (Rann, Mang, herds), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brings | advmod |
| 2 | Rann | Rann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kite | det |
| 4 | Kite | Kite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rann | appos |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 brings | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Mang | det |
| 10 | Mang | Mang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sets | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bat | det |
| 12 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sets | nsubj |
| 13 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brings | conj |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sets | xcomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 shut | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 herds | det |
| 17 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shut | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shut | cop |
| 19 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sets | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 byre | case |
| 21 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shut | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hut | cc |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 byre | conj |
| 24 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 loosed | mark |
| 25 | loosed | loose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 byre | acl |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 27 dawn | case |
| 27 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 loosed | obl |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shut | cop |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sets | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Rann | now; night | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | set | present | that Mang | we | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient we=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | the herds | byre and hut | shut property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | loose | participle | byre and hut not said here | dawn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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