The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 25
THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: sing, dance · To what, where: COUNCIL ROCK, HIDE
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 (Mowgli), 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 | THAT | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 SANG | mark |
| 2 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 SANG | nsubj |
| 3 | SANG | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 DANCED | advcl |
| 4 | AT | at | ADP | _ | 7 ROCK | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ROCK | det |
| 6 | COUNCIL | COUNCIL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ROCK | compound |
| 7 | ROCK | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 SANG | obl |
| 8 | WHEN | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 DANCED | advmod |
| 9 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 DANCED | nsubj |
| 10 | DANCED | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 15 HIDE | case |
| 12 | SHERE | SHERE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 HIDE | nmod:poss |
| 13 | KHAN | KHAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 SHERE | flat |
| 14 | ’S | 's | PART | _ | 12 SHERE | case |
| 15 | HIDE | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 DANCED | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Mowgli | the COUNCIL ROCK | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | Mowgli | SHERE's HIDE | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hide=Location |
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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