The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 130
He was scratched and bleeding in twenty places; one eye was almost out, and his sides were torn to ribbons.
Who acts: one eye · What happens: scratch, bleed, be, tear · To what, where: Catch, twenty places, sides
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 (one eye), 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 scratched | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | aux:pass |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bleeding | cc |
| 5 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 scratched | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 places | case |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 places | nummod |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bleeding | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 out | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eye | nummod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 out | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 out | cop |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 out | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 scratched | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 torn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 torn | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sides | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 torn | aux:pass |
| 20 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scratched | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ribbons | case |
| 22 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 torn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past · passive | Catch | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | twenty places | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | is | past | one eye | almost, out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tear | past · passive | Catch's sides | to ribbons result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to ribbon=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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