The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 97
Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man’s cub among her children?”
Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, boast
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 (wolf), 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 | 4 there | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 wolf | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 boast | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 boast | aux |
| 10 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cub | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cub | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boast | obl |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boast | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | now | a wolf obl; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | could | a wolf | of a man's cub; among Wolf's children | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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