The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 88
“They’re killing all the holluschickie on all the beaches!”
Who acts: seals · What happens: 're, kill · To what, where: holluschickie, beaches
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 (seals), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ’re | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 holluschickie | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 holluschickie | det |
| 7 | holluschickie | holluschickie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killing | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 beaches | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 beaches | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beaches | det |
| 11 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killing | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 're in a quote | past | seals = seal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | gerund | seals = seal not said here | all holluschickie | all beaches | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holluschickie=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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