The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 42
Waters of the Waingunga, whither went Shere Khan?
Who acts: Waters · What happens: go · To what, where: Shere Khan
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 (Waters), 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 | Waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Waingunga | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Waingunga | det |
| 4 | Waingunga | Waingunga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waters | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Khan | compound |
| 9 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Waters of the Waingunga | Shere Khan | whither property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location khan=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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