The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 31
The Beaches of Lukannon—the home where we were born!
What happens: bear · To what, where: Beaches
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: 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 Beaches | det |
| 2 | Beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Lukannon | case |
| 4 | Lukannon | Lukannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Beaches | nmod |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 born | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the Beaches of Lukannon | the home obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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