The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 85
As Mang flies between the beasts and birds, so fly I between the village and the jungle.
Who acts: Mang, you · What happens: fly · To what, where: beasts, I, village
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 (Mang, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 flies | mark |
| 2 | Mang | Mang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | advcl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 beasts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beasts | det |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flies | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 birds | cc |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beasts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fly | obj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 village | det |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jungle | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jungle | det |
| 18 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 village | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | Mang | the beasts and birds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent between beast=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | imperative | you not said here | I | the village and the jungle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme between village=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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