The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 6
But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet.
Who acts: feet, huge claws · What happens: come, leave, see, stripe, dangle · To what, where: Council Rock, that, striped hide, rock, end
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 (feet, huge claws), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 left | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hide | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Shere | flat |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Shere | case |
| 21 | striped | stripe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hide | amod |
| 22 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 rock | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rock | det |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hide | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dangling | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dangling | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 claws | det |
| 29 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 claws | amod |
| 30 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dangling | nsubj |
| 31 | dangling | dangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 end | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 end | det |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dangling | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 feet | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 feet | det |
| 37 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 feet | amod |
| 38 | dangling | dangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 feet | amod |
| 39 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 end | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | feet = foot | the Council Rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | that | of feet = foot | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | feet = foot not said here | Shere's striped hide | the rock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hide=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stripe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | dangle | gerund | the huge claws | at the end of the empty dangling feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 6 | dangle | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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