The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 36
Bring up the great bull buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd bulls with the angry eyes.
Who acts: you · What happens: bring up · To what, where: great bull buffaloes
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 (you), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Bring | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 buffaloes | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buffaloes | amod |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buffaloes | compound |
| 6 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bulls | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bulls | det |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skinned | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 blue | punct |
| 11 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bulls | amod |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bulls | compound |
| 13 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 buffaloes | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyes | det |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bulls | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | imperative | you not said here | the great bull buffaloes and the skinned herd bulls with the angry eyes | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent buffalo=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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