The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 60
The men ought to skin two hundred to-day, but it’s the beginning of the season and they are new to the work.
Who acts: head, Kerick · What happens: be · To what, where: beginning
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 (head, Kerick), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 skin | mark |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 skin | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hundred | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beginning | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 beginning | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beginning | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beginning | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beginning | det |
| 16 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 season | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 season | det |
| 19 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beginning | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 new | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 new | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 new | cop |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 season | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 work | det |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 new | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | head | the beginning | season | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Kerick | to the work; new property | tree rules |
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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