The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 138
Why can’t people stay where they belong?”
Who acts: people · What happens: not stay, belong
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 (people), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stay | advmod |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 belong | advcl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 belong | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 belong | nsubj |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | can | people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | belong | present | People | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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