The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 26
This year we are all holluschickie, and we can dance the Fire-dance in the breakers off Lukannon and play on the new grass.
Who acts: year, we · What happens: be, dance, play · To what, where: holluschickie, Fire dance, breakers, new grass
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, we), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holluschickie | nsubj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 holluschickie | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 holluschickie | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 holluschickie | advmod |
| 6 | holluschickie | holluschickie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dance | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dance | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dance | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dance | aux |
| 11 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 holluschickie | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dance | det |
| 13 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dance | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fire | punct |
| 15 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dance | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 breakers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 breakers | det |
| 18 | breakers | breaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dance | obl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 Lukannon | case |
| 20 | Lukannon | Lukannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 breakers | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 play | cc |
| 22 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dance | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 grass | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grass | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grass | amod |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 play | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 holluschickie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this year | holluschickie | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dance | can | we | the Fire dance | the breakers off Lukannon | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme | |||
| 3 | play | infinitive | we not said here | the new grass | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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