The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 48
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.
Who acts: This, great war · What happens: be, fight, hand · To what, where: story, bath rooms
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 (This, great war), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 war | amod |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fought | nsubj |
| 10 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tavi | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rikki | punct |
| 12 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tavi | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tikki | punct |
| 14 | tavi | tavi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fought | nsubj |
| 15 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 war | acl:relcl |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 handed | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 single | punct |
| 18 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fought | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rooms | punct |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 rooms | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rooms | det |
| 22 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rooms | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bath | punct |
| 24 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 handed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bungalow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bungalow | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bungalow | amod |
| 28 | bungalow | bungalow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rooms | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cantonment | case |
| 30 | Segowlee | Segowlee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 cantonment | compound |
| 31 | cantonment | cantonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bungalow | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the story | of the great war | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the great war | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hand | participle | the great war not said here | the bath rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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