The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 53
He was lost last year in the big gale.”
What happens: lose · To what, where: Zaharrof, big gale
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gale | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gale | amod |
| 9 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | Zaharrof | the big gale | year | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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