The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 113
He was scarred all over with the marks of savage fights, but he was always ready for just one fight more.
Who acts: Catch · What happens: scar, be, mark · To what, where: Catch, savage fights
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catch), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scarred | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scarred | aux:pass |
| 3 | scarred | scar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 over | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 scarred | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 marks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 marks | det |
| 8 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scarred | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fights | case |
| 10 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fights | amod |
| 11 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 marks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ready | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 ready | advmod |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scarred | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 fight | case |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fight | nummod |
| 21 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | obl |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 ready | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scarred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scar | past · passive | Catch | with the marks of savage fights; over property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mark=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Catch | for one fight; always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Catch not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | mark | savage fights | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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