The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 111
The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
Who acts: great God Brahm, first cobra, cobra, Brahm · What happens: put, spread, keep off, sleep, mark · To what, where: mark, hood, sun
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great God Brahm, first cobra, cobra, Brahm), 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 | 4 Brahm | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Brahm | amod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brahm | compound |
| 4 | Brahm | Brahm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mark | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 spread | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cobra | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 cobra | amod |
| 16 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | nsubj |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hood | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spread | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 keep | compound:prt |
| 25 | Brahm | Brahm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 slept | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 slept | nsubj |
| 28 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 keep | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the great God Brahm | Brahm's mark | upon our people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme upon people=Destination | |||
| 2 | spread | past | the first cobra | Brahm's hood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep off | to-infinitive | the first cobra not said here | the sun | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sun=Theme brahm=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | cobra | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mark | Brahm | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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