The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 70
“It was a long dive, but it was worth it.”
Who acts: water · What happens: be · To what, where: long dive
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | _ | 6 dive | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dive | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dive | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dive | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dive | amod |
| 6 | dive | dive | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 worth | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dive | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dive | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | water | a long dive | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | water | worth 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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