The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 8
No cradle is so comfortable as the long, rocking swell of the Pacific.
Who acts: cradle · What happens: be, rock
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 (cradle), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cradle | det |
| 2 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comfortable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comfortable | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 comfortable | advmod |
| 5 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 swell | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swell | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swell | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rocking | punct |
| 10 | rocking | rock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 swell | amod |
| 11 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comfortable | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pacific | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pacific | det |
| 14 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 swell | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no cradle | as the long rocking swell of the Pacific; comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rock | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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